Isserlis Tavener Quotes & Sayings

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. — Mahatma Gandhi

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else ... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age. — B.F. Skinner

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity — Bo Bennett

On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor ... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul. — Cass Gilbert

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play. — Albert Einstein

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release — John Moulder Wilson

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people. — Thomas Jefferson