I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. [Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)]

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. [John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)]

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the axe. [Abe Lincoln]

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. [Abraham Lincoln]

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [Dwight D. Eisenhower (April 1953, Washington D.C.)]

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. [Henry Kissinger]

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. [Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC]

The best leader is he who has judgement enough to choose able people to do, what he would have done himself, and self control enough not to interfere while they do it. (From: Den bedste chef er den, som har dømmekraft nok til at vælge gode mennesker til at gøre det, han selv ville have gjort, og selvbeherskelse nok til at afholde sig fra at blande sig i deres arbejde, mens de gør det.) [Theodore Roosevelt]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)]

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. [Dwight D. Eisenhower]

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. [John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)]

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. [Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)]

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. [Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)]

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities;
an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. [Harry Truman]

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realitites.
We need men who can dream of things that never were. [John F. Kennedy]

When you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper,
and when you are in the wrong, you cannot afford to lose it. [Ghandi had this sign on the wall in his room at Sevagram, his last home]

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. [Theodore Roosevelt]

If Hitler were to invade Hell, I would find occasion to make a favorable reference to the devil. [Winston Churchill]

Et kompromis er kunsten at dele en kage, så alle tror, at de har fået det største stykke. [Winston Churchill]

Man hæver stemmen, når man burde forstærke sit argument. [Samuel Johnson]