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Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan. – John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the fai	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere. – Smiley Blanton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. – Benjamin Spock	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. – Croesus of Lydia	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. – Rudyard Kipling	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. – Charles Austin Beard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. – Euripides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. – John Updike	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. – Ronald Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. – Philip Caldwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. – Barber B. Conable, Jr	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American. – David Duchovny	added by anonymous 14 years ago
On Fathers Day, we again wish you all happy birthday. – Ralph Kiner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. – Benjamin McLane Spock	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you. – Elie Wiesel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. – L. L. Henderson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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