Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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S. G. Goodrich, fully Samuel Griswold Goodrich, pen name Peter Praley

Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue, and renders a man, in the pursuit of defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.

Consciousness | Contempt | Courage | Defense | Fear | Man | Opposition | Right | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

William James

The whole defense of religious faith hinges upon action.

Action | Defense | Faith | Wisdom |

Janet Kauffman

If we care about the land, it will be necessary to redefine whole economies, not just the farm economy. A complex, solid economy could certainly grow around a policy of cooperation with natural environments. Why haven’t we proposed such policies - on a grand a scale as national defense - when our own species is at stake?

Care | Cooperation | Defense | Land | Policy | Will | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

Defense | Diplomacy | Wisdom |

Melville DeLancey Landon, pen name Eli Perkins

A man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.

Man | Talking | Time | Wisdom |

Walter Lippmann

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Talking | Time | Wisdom |

Rose Macauley, fully Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay

She probably labored under the common delusion that you made things better by talking about them.

Better | Delusion | Talking | Wisdom |

Walter Lippmann

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Consideration | Democracy | Good | Men | Public | Servitude | Talking | Will | Wisdom | Work |

Neil MacCormick, Sir Donald Neil MacCormick

When we say that law ‘embodies’ values we are talking metaphorically. What does it mean? Values are only ‘embodied’ in law in the sense that and to the extent that human beings approve of the laws they have because of the state of affairs they are supposed to secure, being states of affairs which are on some ground deemed just or otherwise good. This need not be articulated at all.

Good | Law | Need | Sense | Talking | Wisdom |

Tom Stoppard, fully Sir Tom Stoppard, born Tomáš Straüssler

A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.

Man | Nonsense | Sense | Talking | Wisdom |

UNESCO Constitution NULL

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defense of peace must be constructed.

Defense | Men | Peace | Wisdom |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

So when in this day I see the leaders of nations again talking peace while preparing for war, I take fearful pause.

Day | Nations | Peace | Talking | War |

Vincent McNabb

All thinking is not prayer. But thinking can be prayer, just as walking and talking and washing the floor can be prayer.

Prayer | Talking | Thinking |

Fulton Sheen, fully Archbishop Fulton John Sheen

The great characteristic of our age is not its love of religion, but its love of talking about religion.

Age | Love | Religion | Talking |

Fulton Sheen, fully Archbishop Fulton John Sheen

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him.

Ends | God | Listening | Prayer | Talking |

Andrew Bernstein

The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.

Defense | Hero | Life | Life | Man | Reality |