16 quotes
'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Homage to Greece (1943)
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
Richard Crawley (1951)
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1966)
We have the suggestion of divine love but we never understand its pattern
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Until Tomorrow Comes (1979)
Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves
Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire … Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
A Brief and True Report concerning Williamsburg in Virginia by Rutherford Goodwin (1941)
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Eternal Greece (1961)
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.