When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

-- Daniel Dafoe, 1660-1731, English novelist & jounalist
in "The True Born Englishman"

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic & philosopher, 1772-1834

The important thing in life is not the victory, but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well.  (transl. fr. French)

-- Baron Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French sportsman & educationist

Tis better to have fought and lost than never to have fought at all.

-- Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, 1819-61

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

-- R. G. Collingwood, English philosopher & archaeologist, 1889-1943

Faber est suae quisque fortunae.  (Each man is the smith of his own fortune.)

-- Appius Claudius Caecus, Roman orator & writer, 312-279BC

Count it the greatest sin to prefer mere existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face.

Honesty is praised and left to shiver.

-- Justinian the Great, Roman Emporer 527-565AD

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

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