Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s, Inaugural Address (1905)
No-deal Brexit 'no problem', Nigel Farage says at Leave Means Leave rally https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45614468 BBC News (22 September 2018) <br class="br">2018
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s, Inaugural Address (1905)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Source: A Nation of Immigrants
John Keble book The Christian Year
The Christian Year. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VII, 53
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Context: Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.
“I have never heard of any convincing reason as to why we should privatize land at this stage.”
Meles Zenawi (1955–2012) Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Part of PM Zenawi's controversial reply to Dr. Abdul Mejid Hussien, as quoted in Interview—“I have never heard of any convincing reason as to why we should privatize land”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Responding to the social theories of Benjamin Kidd, in "Kidd's 'Social Evolution'" in The North American Review (July 1895), p. 109
1890s
Context: A perfectly stupid race can never rise to a very high plane; the negro, for instance, has been kept down as much by lack of intellectual development as by anything else; but the prime factor in the preservation of a race is its power to attain a high degree of social efficiency. Love of order, ability to fight well and breed well, capacity to subordinate the interests of the individual to the interests of the community, these and similar rather humdrum qualities go to make up the sum of social efficiency. The race that has them is sure to overturn the race whose members have brilliant intellects, but who are cold and selfish and timid, who do not breed well or fight well, and who are not capable of disinterested love of the community. In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.
Henry Aldrich (1647–1710) Theologian, philosopher, architect, and poet
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.