(2416 quotes found)
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”
Horace Mann
“There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”
Plutarch
“I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.”
Bette Midler
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
James Joyce
“Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.”
Albert Camus
“An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.”
Jose Marti
“An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.”
John Locke
“The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.”
Max Beerbohm
