Worth Repeating

National Guard Bureau

WASHINGTON, March 24, 1998 – "If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."
Winston Churchill
British prime minister
1874-1965

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Andre Gide
French writer
1869-1951

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fad and popular opinion."
Charles Kuralt
American journalist
1934-1997

"Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose."
Anonymous

"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
Carl Rowan
American journalist
1925-