Dehavilland Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. — James Baker

In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes. — Theodore Roosevelt

One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist. — Bronislaw Huberman

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and ... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy. — Gustav Freytag

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle. — Walter Scott

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father. — Thomas Jefferson