People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Play the hand you're dealt.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.