This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.
Lee H. Hamilton
Related
So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER It's an honor to be selected to attend National 4-H Conference. These delegates excelled in the 4-H ...
BRENDA ALLEN Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest na...
RUSH LIMBAUGH The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be...
ANTHONY KENNEDY Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes...
ALBERTO MORAVIA Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, become...
CHARLES LINDBERGH Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quiet...
DOROTHY THOMPSON I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that con...
JOHN MCCAIN A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
ITALO CALVINO Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each g...
ALISON GOPNIK If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live...
GEORGE WILL We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I h...
REX TILLERSON We are the last generation to have finished secondary school in socialist Yugoslavia. We hope we are...
ALDIN ARNAUTOVIC We keep waiting for another Mahatma to make a difference in our society and nation. Well it is time ...
JERONINIO ALMEIDA Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
CHINESE PROVERB He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL You're not alone, there is more to this I know. You can make it out, you will live to tell.
SAOSIN This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
PENELOPE SPHEERIS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissol...
CORRINE BROWN Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there i...
BRENDA UELAND Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there ...
BRENDA UELAND It has an equal value to the Hamilton Building.
LEWIS SHARP Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature tha...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subj...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ This results in an enormous spending gap in our community's support for education. Currently, Northw...
BOB COX To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to...
SARAH BERNHARDT The president is pleased that Senator Howard Baker and Congressman Lee Hamilton have agreed to condu...
JOE LOCKHART I've re-finished and re-gripped more than 200 sets of clubs. I never want to re-grip another set aga...
TOMMY MAYNE Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.
SORIN CERIN What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God i...
THICH NHAT HANH There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the other...
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ [Television] has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the wo...
ROBERT MACNEIL Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the worl...
ROBERT MACNEIL Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six mon...
LAUREN BACALL I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation...
AZIM PREMJI In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an ...
ERALDO BANOVAC You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created ...
JOEL OSTEEN We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We have to respect Hamilton. Any team that gets this far you have to respect. We?re not going to tak...
BRIAN ZOUBEK This generation today has been exposed to more experimentation, and it's rare to find a candidate wh...
LT. RAUL MUNGUIA I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this ...
BARBARA JORDAN Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Wi...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Wi...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the tr...
ROBERT KENNEDY But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in ne...
WALTER ISAACSON It's a good strategy to take aim at this generation. They've finished raising children and they've p...
HISAKAZU AMANO I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art...
PATTI SMITH We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign re...
MICHELLE OBAMA You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places
PAUL GARDNER Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their...
RONNIE JAMES DIO This (business) has created credit for people who never had it before -- and that creates buying pow...
BUD WARD Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itse...
WILLIAM BAZIOTES Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itsel...
WILLIAM BAZIOTES The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses danc...
SUE TOWNSEND Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is l...
JIM WALSH For our nation, this appears to be the worse natural disaster. It's hard to believe this is happenin...
CAROL STEVENS Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be ...
THOMAS SOWELL ...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must ...
THOMAS SOWELL Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be ...
THOMAS SOWELL Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded...
SID TAYLOR The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be te...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-h...
ROMOLA GARAI Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne ...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense...
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS LOYALTY CANNOT BE BOUGHT IT HAS TO BE CREATED !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS There is only enough time in this world for me to be me. I don't have time to be anyone else." H,L,S...
SUSIE L HILL I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a...
NAJWA ZEBIAN If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this i...
MARK DE MORI Jesus neither said,"It will be finished", nor "It may be finished", but He said,"It is finished".
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for ...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour o...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour o...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour o...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Those who ask ''when will your project be finished'' have clearly never started a project to know ho...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the ...
JOHN PODHORETZ this time has finished me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI 4-H is a good place for youth that are interested in horses to come be around other youth who are in...
JULIA HINZ It is going to be beautiful in here when it is finished.
JAN SULLIVAN I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES When a book is named a Newbery winner, it means that probably every public library in the nation, an...
BARBARA BARSTOW Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet..
-Ga...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO Every nation on the face of the earth has citizens who are endowed with great potentials. There is n...
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Every generation of believers in every nation is given the golden opportunity to shape the destiny o...
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I see the team has made huge strides this year, especially when considering Hamilton is part of one ...
ALAN SCHNEIDER Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashi...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
NORMA SHEARER Cheraw and Lee Central know each other well.
LAVERNE KNOX When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been...
SATCHEL PAIGE The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.
MENACHEM BEGIN We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
T. J. MILLER
More Lee H. Hamilton
But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challen...
LEE H. HAMILTON China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
LEE H. HAMILTON Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. ...
LEE H. HAMILTON I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way...
LEE H. HAMILTON Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with...
LEE H. HAMILTON The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from...
LEE H. HAMILTON Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy...
LEE H. HAMILTON So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
LEE H. HAMILTON Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwil...
LEE H. HAMILTON Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defen...
LEE H. HAMILTON U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of ...
LEE H. HAMILTON When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I ...
LEE H. HAMILTON Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.
LEE H. HAMILTON When I get on an airplane, I am less worried about the passengers than what is going into the hole b...
LEE HAMILTON I do not believe the president should have ignored the statute.
LEE HAMILTON That's an extraordinary occasion and an historic one,
LEE HAMILTON I think Senator Baker and I want to do a very careful, a very thorough, and as the secretary said, v...
LEE HAMILTON Without question, women are leading the charge. Has sex appeal helped? Sure ... But we're going to m...
LEE HAMILTON Just because we cannot accept what's going on in East Timor, that doesn't necessarily mean that we'r...
LEE HAMILTON We had a marvelous meeting with the president, ... The president's comments were very candid, very f...
LEE HAMILTON Without good voter registration data, you simply cannot conduct a good election.
LEE HAMILTON You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,
LEE HAMILTON Look, we want a bill on the desk of the president as soon as possible.
LEE HAMILTON I think there is a genuine split within the administration, within the Congress, within the country ...
LEE HAMILTON What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.
LEE HAMILTON It is a glaring error four years after 9/11. Still exists. Not resolved. There are bills pending in ...
LEE HAMILTON I'm surprised, I'm disappointed and maybe even a little depressed that we did not do better four yea...
LEE HAMILTON We will leave that to historians.
LEE HAMILTON It's important to both Secretary Baker and me that we not raise expectations here. We know that what...
LEE HAMILTON You want to disavow labels and project centrist attitudes. Hoosiers pride themselves on being people...
LEE HAMILTON That's common sense. We're not there yet.
LEE HAMILTON We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.
LEE HAMILTON Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
SCOTT HAMILTON Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skii...
TYLER HAMILTON A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
NATASHA HAMILTON We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
NATASHA HAMILTON Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
NATASHA HAMILTON I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me...
NATASHA HAMILTON If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.
NATASHA HAMILTON I love anything quiz related.
NATASHA HAMILTON The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was...
NIGEL HAMILTON I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the s...
NIGEL HAMILTON That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl...
NIGEL HAMILTON Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b...
NIGEL HAMILTON After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas...
NIGEL HAMILTON What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w...
NIGEL HAMILTON In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collatera...
NIGEL HAMILTON We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
SCOTT HAMILTON When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv...
HAMILTON JORDAN Some commoners are less common than others.
ALAN HAMILTON In the last week,
ALAN HAMILTON In the opulence of its set, its cast was remarkably adept and it was richly endowed with character a...
ALAN HAMILTON There is, as yet, no Beast and definitely no Bitch.
ALAN HAMILTON Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge.
ALAN HAMILTON We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
HAMILTON JORDAN The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and ...
HAMILTON JORDAN If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is w...
HAMILTON JORDAN I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people...
HAMILTON JORDAN If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an...
HAMILTON JORDAN If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give...
HAMILTON JORDAN And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti...
HAMILTON JORDAN The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination proc...
HAMILTON JORDAN You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he r...
HAMILTON JORDAN We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to ...
HAMILTON JORDAN It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. ...
HAMILTON JORDAN I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit...
HAMILTON JORDAN I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski t...
TYLER HAMILTON Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON [T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The first step must be, of course, an inquiry into the extent of our industrial sickness, and he det...
ALICE HAMILTON Surely there is every reason why we should devote to this disease the same intelligence and energy t...
ALICE HAMILTON No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
ALICE HAMILTON It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P...
ALICE HAMILTON It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States und...
ALICE HAMILTON Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation...
ALICE HAMILTON From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men w...
ALICE HAMILTON Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
ALICE HAMILTON Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of...
ALICE HAMILTON Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of any individual without...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them prope...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
VIJALI HAMILTON " Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuou...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
SCOTT HAMILTON I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self...
HAMILTON MABIE Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchas...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor...
HAMILTON JORDAN You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many o...
ADAM HAMILTON We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in...
ADAM HAMILTON A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
NIGEL HAMILTON There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I think the first duty of society is justice.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but...
BETHANY HAMILTON There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It&...
ANTHONY HAMILTON Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
GEORGE HAMILTON It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the p...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in lo...
ALLAN HAMILTON