Thoughtful Thursday

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
- Patrick Henry

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
- Lee Iacocca

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little."
- Sydney Smith

"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."
- Samuel Johnson

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."
- Norman Douglas

"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
- Winston Churchill