Saturday, November 15, 2008

Quotes, power

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
-- James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
-- Thomas Paine

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
-- Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965

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