“Wishing and hoping and praying are poor excuses for action.”
Dennis A. Peer
“A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
Ernest Boyer
“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Today, at least here in the US, the only thing that has exceeded our poor choice in clothing is our terrible manners. I do not know how long I might live, but I’ll not ask for another second in this bargain basement society.”
Bobby W. Miller
“Obviously, it's very difficult to justify one action against the other when evacuees and local poor people are both in need.”
Hector Garcia
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”
Thomas Jefferson
