quotes of day Saturday, August 8, 2026

“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”

“When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.”

“Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.”

“We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.”

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”

“Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.”

“Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.”

“I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.”

“It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.”

“There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.”

“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”