“We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.”
The Noble Greeks (1993).
Victory Speech http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript.html (9 November 2016)
2010s, 2016, November
“We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.”
The Noble Greeks (1993).
“America is too great for small dreams.”
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution. But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.
The Greatness of God.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 87
Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 107.
On Leading Well
US embassy cables culprit should be executed, says Mike Huckabee
Haroon
Siddique
Matthew
Weaver
The Guardian
2010-12-01
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/us-embassy-cables-executed-mike-huckabee
2010-12-02
regarding leak of 250,000 US diplomatic cables to the website WikiLeaks
“Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance; it's what makes America great!”
A appearance on The Tonight Show (29 June 1988)
Variant: Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great!
“Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?”
Source: Questions of Travel