Thoughtful Thursday (2 weeks worth)

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
- John Galsworthy

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban

"Public opinion in this country is everything. "
- Abraham Lincoln

"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."
- Milton Friedman

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."
- President Theodore Roosevelt

"We always weaken whatever we exaggerate."
- Jean Francois de La Harpe

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
- Albert Einstein

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage."
- Mark Twain

"Anger as soon as fed is dead. 'Tis starving makes it fat."
- Emily Dickinson

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
- Calvin Coolidge

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
- Honore de Balzac

"There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life."
- Unknown