The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

I saw that she didn’t want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it’s because there’s something important to be said.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln’s maxim and philosophy]

The answer of Solon on the question, ‘Which is the most perfect popular govemment,’ has never been exceeded by any man since his time, as containing a maxim of political morality, ‘That,’ says he, ‘where...

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let...

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their...

Men are but wheat, and the government is the bread”? Ah yes, that was my grandfather, who shouted that shortly before hurling a loaf of bread at President Hoover during the great depression.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there’s criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good...