Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom.
- Roger W Hancock, the PoetPatriot - PoetPatriot Quotes


Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived
 as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
- Albert Einstein


Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein


Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein


God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein
God disciplines because He loves.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
 and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein


Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein


A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
- Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913


The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
- Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913


Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
- Theodore Roosevelt, San Francisco, CA, 1903


It is true of the Nation, as of the individual,
that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer."
- Theodore Roosevelt, Berkeley, CA, 1911


The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Jamestown, VA, April 26, 1907


Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves
or they must submit to being governed by others."
- Theodore Roosevelt, Jamestown, VA, April 26, 1907


If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes
a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful."
- Theodore Roosevelt, To son, Kermit, "Theodore Roosevelt" by Joseph B. Bishop, 1915


I have always been fond of the West African proverb:
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
- Theodore Roosevelt, "Theodore Roosevelt, A Life", page 337;
Letter to a friend, after standing firm against the party boss.


It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.
- Theodore Roosevelt, To Cuno H. Rudolph,
Washington Playground Association, February 16, 1907.


A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country
is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Speech, Springfield Il, July 4, 1903


It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago Il, April 10, 1899


Stupid is as stupid does.
- Forest Gump, Forest Gump, the movie


Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
- Forest Gump, Forest Gump, the movie


Mama always said, dying was a part of life.
- Forest Gump, Forest Gump, the movie
 

Hated by fools, and fools to hate, be that my motto and my fate.
- Swift, To Dr. Delany
 

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
- Owen Meredith, Last Words of a Sensitive Second-rate Poet
 

The heart of the fool is in his mouth, 
but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
- Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac for 1733
 

The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.
- Pascal, Pense'es, IV
 

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?
- Shakespheare, Hamlet, II, 2
 

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!  Be a hero in the strive!
- Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
 

What is History but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte, Sayings
 

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
- A. B. Alcott, Table Talk
 

Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul.
- Longfellow, A Psalm of Life


Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
- J. R. Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
 

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
- Sara Teasdale, The Answer


"Tis with our judgements as our watches, 
none go just alike, yet each believes his own."
- Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1
 

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Tennyson, Locksley Hall

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