“We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.” IfsBelieveFactsProblemFacesFightingEvilVirtueBalanceOptimismDeedsSolveFoolishGravesSurrenderPessimismThreateningIgnoble Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.” TryingI CanFactsHelpingWould BePastMy OwnAcceptingClaimsFoolishContemporaryPainterPhenomenon Author:Joseph Plaskett
“It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?” WantDoneFactsGovernmentWould BeTodayAcceptingDemocracyPathDangerousUniversityFoolishPeril Author:Vincent Massey