This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We try to make a virtue of vices we are loathe to correct.
No man can answer for his courage if he has never been in peril.
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
You must not retain for one instant any man in a responsible position where you have become doubtful of his ability to do the job… This matter frequently calls for more courage than any other thing you will have to do, but I expect you to be perfectly cold-blooded about it.
Titles, indeed, may be purchased; but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid.
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
This is what I found out about religion. It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Confidence | Courage | God | Man | Power | Religion | Repose | Responsibility | Trust | God |
There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom.
Government | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Government |
All government indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.
Enjoyment | Government | Virtue | Virtue | Government |
Perfect virtue is to do unwitnessed that which we should be capable of doing before all the world.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these; for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Peace | Perfection | Progress | Prosperity | Virtue | Virtue |
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess but error. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall. But in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it.
Angels | Charity | Danger | Desire | Error | Excess | Knowledge | Man | Power | Virtue | Virtue | Danger |