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The Long Run

«I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.»
«I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution»
«People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.»
«Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.»
«The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In»
«Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.»
«Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.»
«In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.»
«There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.»
«I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin»

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