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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.Collection: Thomas
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.Collection: Thomas
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.Collection: Thomas
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.Collection: Thomas
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.Collection: Thomas
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.Collection: Thomas
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.Collection: Thomas
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.Collection: Thomas
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.Collection: Thomas
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.Collection: Thomas
No violent extreme endures.Collection: Thomas
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.Collection: Thomas
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.Collection: Thomas
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.Collection: Thomas
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.Collection: Thomas
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.Collection: Thomas
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.Collection: Thomas
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.Collection: Thomas
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.Collection: Thomas
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.Collection: Thomas
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.Collection: Thomas
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Collection: Thomas
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.Collection: Thomas
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.Collection: Thomas
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.Collection: Thomas
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.Collection: Thomas
Happy the people whose annals are vacant.Collection: Thomas
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.Collection: Thomas
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.Collection: Thomas
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.Collection: Thomas
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.Collection: Thomas
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.Collection: Thomas
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.Collection: Thomas
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.Collection: Thomas
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.Collection: Thomas
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?Collection: Thomas
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.Collection: Thomas
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?Collection: Thomas
Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.Collection: Thomas
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.Collection: Thomas
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.Collection: Thomas
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.Collection: Thomas
You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.Collection: Thomas
In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.Collection: Thomas
A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.Collection: Thomas
Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.Collection: Thomas
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.Collection: Thomas
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.Collection: Thomas
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.Collection: Thomas
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.Collection: Thomas