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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

— John Buchan Montrose and Leadership (1930)

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Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)

I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.

Canadian Occasions (1940)

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The Power-House (1916)

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton War As I Knew It (1947)

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