Quotes

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Amos Bronson Alcott

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Madeleine Albright

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Madeleine Albright

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

Madeleine Albright

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Madeleine Albright