THUS SPAKE SOME GREAT MEN
(i).The
ballot is greater than the bullet. (ii).
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we
think of it; the tree is the real thing. (iii). I am a firm believer in the
people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national
crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. (iv). Be not deceived.
Revolutions do not go backward. (v). No law is stronger than is the public
sentiment where it is to be enforced. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, American
President (1809-1865).
(i). Being
ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. (ii). Laws too
gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. (iii). He that falls in
love with himself will have no rivals. (iv). When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
(v). Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious
and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate and you will be
healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
American statesman and philosopher (1706-1790).
(i). No society
can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law (ii). The art of life is the avoiding of
pain. (iii). It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty
gods, or no God. (iv). It is error alone
which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself. (v). We may
consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its
majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more
than the inhabitant of another country. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Third
President of the Unites States (1743-1826).
(i). Time and
the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look
only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. (ii). The same
evolutionary beliefs, for which our forefathers fought are still at issue
around the globe – the belief that the rights of man come not from the
generosity of the state but from the hand of God. (iii). Let us never negotiate
out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. (iv). A man may die, nations
may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
(v). We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can
guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. JOHN F. KENNEDY,
Thirty-fifth President of the United States (1917-1963).
(i). Error
can claim no exemption even if it can be supported by the scriptures of the
world. (ii). After I am gone, no single person will be able completely to represent
me. But a little bit of me will live in many of you. (iii). He who would be friends
with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend. (iv). If a man
reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others
too. V). I am endeavouring to see God through
service of humanity, for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below,
but in every one. MAHATMA GANDHI, Father of the Indian Nation
(1869-1948).
(i). The basic
fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life. (ii). How can a person
work if his head does not agree with his heart.? (iii). The legend goes that
Ravana had a thousand hands and a dozen heads. The machine gives a man a
thousand hands and a dozen heads. (iv). It is the children of science who have made
the world today. (v). As a man progresses, God also progresses, for after all
God is a creation of man’s mind ….A man’s understanding cannot outstrip his intellect.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU (India’s First Prime Minister (1869-1964).
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18th
March 2021 G.R.Kanwal
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