Character Quote by George Washington

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

— George Orwell

[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation…

— Alan Keyes

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

“[T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.”

— Johann Fichte

“[T]he pied beauty of humanity should not be carved into acceptable and unacceptable based on things that simply make us who we are.”

— Andrew Sullivan

“The emblems of status may shift, but human nature generally delights in being first.”

— Jill Jonnes

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of…

— James Russell Lowell

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

— Alexander Herzen