Fortune Quote #3261

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government
treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in
the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of
life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped. -- Senator Hubert
Humphrey

Fortune Quote #3260

Invention: Man creates the automobile to go places without walking.
Progress: Man creates the treadmill for walking without going places.

Fortune Quote #3259

Where is the wisdom we've lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we've
lost in information? -- T. S. Eliot

Fortune Quote #3258

History marches to the drum of a clear idea. -- W. H. Auden

Fortune Quote #3257

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. --
David Hume

Fortune Quote #3256

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to
function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fortune Quote #3255

The better part of one's life consists of friendship. -- Abraham
Lincoln

Fortune Quote #3254

Victory is never final. Defeat is never fatal. It is courage that
counts. -- Winston Churchill

Fortune Quote #3253

If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast
enough. -- Mario Andretti, racecar driver

Fortune Quote #3252

Most people spend their time on the "urgent" rather than on
the "important." -- Robert Hutchins