And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alone four times, if he hadn't. Now, at the same time he acquired over the years a reputation for being sympathetic to blacks, and he got their votes, heaven knows.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.
Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses. . .
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. . . . The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.
Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.