Thoughtful Thursday

"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
- Robert H. Jackson

"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."
- W.E.B. Du Bois

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
- George Washington

"To be free / Is often to be lonely."
- W.H. Auden

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy

"A friend in power is a friend lost."
- Henry Adams

"If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton