Historian Quotes: Timeless Insights and Reflections (Page 7)

"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich"

"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was"

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want"

"Expenditures rise to meet income"

"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate"

Sallust, Historian

"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural"

Sallust, Historian

"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense"

Sallust, Historian

"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing"

Sallust, Historian

"Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits"

Sallust, Historian

"Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act"

Sallust, Historian

"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity"

Sallust, Historian

"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself"

Sallust, Historian

"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master"

Sallust, Historian

"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue"

Sallust, Historian

"Heroism is endurance for one moment more"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art"

Sallust, Historian

"In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery"

Sallust, Historian

"Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure"

Sallust, Historian

"It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer"

Sallust, Historian

"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay"

Sallust, Historian

"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve"

Sallust, Historian

"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord"

Sallust, Historian

"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised"

Sallust, Historian

"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude"

Sallust, Historian

"It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave"

Sallust, Historian

"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed"

Sallust, Historian

"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible"

Sallust, Historian

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means"

Sallust, Historian

"Necessity makes even the timid brave"

Sallust, Historian

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