Thought for Today

"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."

~~~~~ Alfred Austin

Thought for Today

"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"

~~~~~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thought for Today

'Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it."

~~~~~ Louis Agassiz

Thought for Today

"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends."

~~~~~ Julia Ward Howe

Thought for Today

"No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses."

~~~~~ Edward Livingston

Thought for Today

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

~~~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought for Today

"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances."

~~~~~ Benjamin Cardozo

Thought for Today

"Lives of great men oft remind us
As we o'er their pages turn,
That we too may leave behind us -
Letters that we ought to burn."

~~~~~ Thomas Hood

Thought for Today

"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done."

~~~~~ Vance Packard

Thought for Today

"If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it."

~~~~~ Fats Waller