Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim wisdom the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour for mankind employed and then when most you share it best enjoyed.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

From principles is derived probability but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Truth like gold is to be obtained not by its growth but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A truer image of the world I think is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat allotted to them on a proper basis.

God is stronger than their strength more loving than their uttermost love and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others they have obtained the infallible proof that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

You do not know our culture our ethics or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly how much more then in spiritual?

Where the people possess no authority their rights obtain no respect.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained will be permanent whether to individuals or nations unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

Peace above all things is to be desired but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.