Thought for Today

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

~~~~~ Thomas Jefferson

Thought for Today

"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."

~~~~~ Hartley William Shawcross

Thought for Today

"It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope."

~~~~~ Arthur Baer

Thought for Today

"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"

~~~~~ Abigail Adams

Thought for Today

"An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."

~~~~~ Francis Thompson

Thought for Today

"When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead."

~~~~~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Thought for Today

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts."

~~~~~ Axel Munthe

Thought for Today

"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times."

~~~~~ Rutherford B. Hayes

Thought for Today

"And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed."

~~~~~ Lajos Kossuth

Thought for Today

"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."

~~~~~ Carl Clinton Van Doren

Thought for Today

"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment."

~~~~~ Marshall Field

Thought for Today

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."

~~~~~ John Philpot Curran

Thought for Today

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

~~~~~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Thought for Today

"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case."

~~~~~ Finley Peter Dunne

Thought for Today

"Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House."

~~~~~ Calvin Coolidge

Thought for Today

"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition."

~~~~~ Adam Smith

Thought for Today

"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."

~~~~~ Soren Kierkegaard

Thought for Today

"When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws."

~~~~~ Joseph P. Bradley

Thought for Today

"We need not worry so much about what man descends from – it's what he descends to that shames the human race."

~~~~~ Hal Boyle

Thought for Today

"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."

~~~~~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon