“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
On taking charge of an attack on a fortress, in Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties : A Book of Inspiration (1896) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 55
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)
Source: Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
Context: An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
Variant: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
Source: Complete Works - Volume XII
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
“Don't worry about a thing,
'Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.”
Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)
Song lyrics
“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”
“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”
