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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
Nelson Mandela “Long Walk to Freedom” (1995)
Nelson Mandela, a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, who spent 27 years in prison and ultimately elected and served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black South African to hold the office and the first to be elected in a fully representative, multiracial election.
“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as we do when the baby gets hold of a hammer. It’s just a question of how much damage he can do with it before you can take it away from him.”
William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers (1879–1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. This quote is taken from his Letter to the Editor, published in The New York Times July 5, 1930.
“There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.”
“Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet and educator whose works include “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “The Song of Hiawatha.” He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. Quotation is from Kavanagh: A Tale, published in 1849.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
Gerald Ford (1913–2006), 38th President of the United States. Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (August 12, 1974). Quote is widely (and incorrectly) attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
“Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.”
— Walter B. Wriston (1919-2005). Banker and former chairman of Citicorp.
“Remarks of Walter B. Wriston,” for Shearman & Sterling LLP, January 23, 1983
“I really didn’t say everything I said.”
– Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra (born 1925)
Former American League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. Quote appears in the February 24, 1986, column by Steve Marcus in the Sports Section of Newsday [Nassau and Suffolk Edition], “Color Yogi a Happy Guy.”
“. . . . . reporters at Bikini* were questioning an army lieutenant about what weapons would be used in the next war.
“I dunno,” he said, “but in the war after the next war, sure as hell, they’ll be using spears!”
Walter Winchell, born Walter Weinschel (1897-1972), reporter and syndicated columnist, September 1946.
*The Bikini Atoll is a collection of islands in the Pacific Ocean where the newly created atomic bomb was tested.
“If you think you can or you think you can’t you are correct.”
Henry Ford (1863 – 1947), American industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company and development sponsor of the assembly line mass production.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist most noted for his scientific theory that all species of life descended from common ancestors. In his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, he presented compelling evidence that this evolution resulted from natural selection.