#tru

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#affinity #always #anything #around #attribute

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #appeal #been #between #christianity

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#began #born #compels #humility #now

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#constructive #destructive #human #human nature #nature

Truth is in things, and not in words. ↗

— Herman Melville

#truth #truth is #words

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#crime #entertain #feeling #found #guilty

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#be true #everyone #idea #platitude #true

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence. ↗

— Michael Medved

#coming #even #existence #existing #flourishing

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#large #large numbers #numbers #punished #sound

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. ↗

— Golda Meir

#our #paid #them #true #victories