Worth Repeating #5

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1996 – “There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.”
--John Ruskin
(1819-1900)
English writer, social reformer

“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”
--Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
U.S. poet

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
--Thomas Carlyle
(1795-1881)
British writer

“It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)
German writer

“A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
--James Madison
(1751-1836)
U.S. president

“The best way to defeat an enemy is to defeat his strategy. The best way to defeat his strategy is to adopt it.”
--Sun Tzu
(c. 500 B.C.)
Chinese military strategist