No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. – Thomas Jefferson, letter, 1796 Category: Presidents Day
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower Category: Presidents Day
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. – Thomas Jefferson Category: Presidents Day
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle Category: Legacy
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one days insolence. – Elias Canetti Category: Success
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G.M. Trevelyan Category: Education
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James A. Baldwin Category: good
