1961, Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
“As for life within a Legislature,— who can tell how warped and bent and twisted, and accommodated to the exigencies of party struggle become the faculties of belief? Strong and courageous natures know it, and remain strong and courageous in spite of knowledge and practice; but the pliancy of man is beyond admiration, and is nowhere better seen than under the schooling of Parliament.”
To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs (1895)
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British politician 1832–1918Related quotes
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 49
Source: Means and Ends of Education (1895), Chapter 1 "Truth and Love"
Quoted in The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom, Arthur M. Schesinger, New Brunswick: NJ, Transaction Publishers (1998) p. 56. First printed in 1949. Second Speech Delivered at the Presidium of the ECCI on the American Question (May 14, 1929)
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
“Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.”
“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person’s thumb are
two different things.”