#great

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. ↗

— Margaret Truman

#back #career #fully #greatness #grow

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

#citizens #civil #civil rights #constitution #does

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#both #dismay #father #great #great love

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#generally #great #great talent #kinds #life

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. ↗

— Plutarch

#deeds #everything #good #good man #great

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #campaign #campaigns #comparative #devising

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#conceived #thoughts #truly #walking

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greatest #greatest pleasures #narrowly #only #pleasures

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#life #philosophy #sacrifice #truth #values