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Ideals : Without ideals there is no meaning to life.

Lives of great men all remind us.
we can make our lives sublime
And departing, leaves behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Longfellow                                    
 
  1. Justice is truth in action. - Joseph Joubert.
  2. We must all hang together, else we shall be hanged separately. -Benjamin Franklin.
  3. There's none so blind as they that won't see. -Swift.
  4. Money is a good servant, but a poor master. - Dominique Bonbours.
  5. Civilisation begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. -Will Durant.
  6. The greatest men in history were the poorest. -Emerson.
  7. Our concern is not how to worship in catacombs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. -Abraham Joshua Herschel.
  8. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. -Mahatma Gandhi.
  9. In a democracy, agreement is not important, but participation is. -Gene Brown.
  10. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating endlessly. -Henri Bergson.
  11. Avoid justifying matters as a necessarily evil - A necessary evil is one we like so much that we don't wait it abolished.
  12. Every time you try to smoother a truth, two others get breath.
  13. Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
  14. The eyes do not go wrong, if the mind rules the eyes.
  15. Unite, Guide and Work together and all will be well.

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