When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency.
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Theodore Roosevelt·1904We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.
Napoleon Bonaparte·1798From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Nikola Tesla·1999Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
