Has it ever occurred to you that friendship, at best, is a rather doubtful asset? I don't want friends. I shall have worshippers a...nd followers. People who will obey me because they recognize my greatness. Those who are loyal will be rewarded, and the others--destroyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adv...ersaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When ... did the word "temperament" come into fashion with us?... whatever it stands for, it long since became a great social asse...t for women, and a great social excuse for men. Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid te...am and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs f...rom the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the hard work and poverty of my childhood ... turned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too ha...rd after that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. Fo...r Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »