This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Thomas R. Kelly, fully Thomas Raymond Kelly
Explore the depths of humility, not with your intellects but with your lives, lived in prayer of humble obedience. And there you will find that humility is not merely a human virtue. For there is a humility that is in God Himself. Be ye humble as God is humble. For love and humility walk hand in hand, in God as well as in man. But there is something about deepest humility which makes men bold. For utter obedience is self-forgetful obedience. No longer do we hesitate and shuffle and apologize because, say we, we are weak, lowly creatures and the world is a pack of snarling wolves among whom we are sent as sheep by the Shepherd. I must confess that, on human judgment, the world tasks we face are appalling—well-nigh hopeless. Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move dead bodies.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.
Will |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and... this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
Men |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."
Freedom of speech | Freedom | Man | Speech |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum.
Authority | Civilization | Nations | Peace | People | Right | Rights | World |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their fellowmen more than they lover their own lives and fortunes. God forbid that we would have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being colored will be glorified and purified.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. At any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Let me say again that I am not impugning the motives of the men in Wall Street. They may think that that is the best way to create prosperity for the country. When you have got the market in your hand, does honesty oblige you to turn the palm upside down and empty it? If you have got the market in your hand and believe that you understand the interest of the country better than anybody else, is it patriotic to let it go? I can imagine them using this argument to themselves.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
Most of all, however, these observances attack and undermine the very spirit of life within the minds of men. They afford to our Romans, from the street sweepers to the consuls, a vague sense of confidence where no confidence is and at the same time a pervasive fear, a fear which neither arouses to action nor calls forth ingenuity, but which paralyzes. They remove from men's shoulders the unremitting obligation to create, moment by moment, their own Rome. They come to us sanctioned by the usage of our ancestors and breathing the security of our childhood; they flatter passivity and console inadequacy
Worth |