Petrus, Päpste, Präsidenten
Von Petrus bis Franziskus, von George Washington bis Donald Trump - Päpste und Präsidenten aus zwei Jahrtausenden
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James Abraham Garfield
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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James Abraham Garfield
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
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James Abraham Garfield
Ein Pfund Mut ist mehr wert als eine Tonne Glück.
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James Abraham Garfield
Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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James Abraham Garfield
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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James Abraham Garfield
The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet . . . there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.
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James Abraham Garfield
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
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James Abraham Garfield
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
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James Abraham Garfield
If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.
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James Abraham Garfield
Neben Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit ist Erziehung wichtig: ohne sie können weder Freiheit noch Gerechtigkeit dauernd erhalten werden.
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Jean Paul Getty
Wenn ich nicht so viel Geld für Werbung ausgegeben hätte, wäre ich heute Millionär.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
When wars do come, they fall upon the many, the producing class, who are the sufferers.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
I know only two tunes: One of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
Mistakes have been made.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
The war is over - the rebels are our countrymen again.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
Meine Mißerfolge resultierten aus falschen Einschätzungen, nicht falschen Vorsätzen.