A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

If a man does his best, what else is there? (General George S. Patton)