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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. - Voltaire
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate. — Viktor E. Frankl
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.
Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.