Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this,… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
