12 Quotes by Hourly History

The ego is not master in its own house .

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller.

The man who is born to be a dictator is not compelled. He wills it. He is not driven forward, but drives himself. There is nothing immodest about this. Is it immodest for a worker to drive himself toward heavy labor? Is it presumptuous of a man with the high forehead of a thinker to ponder through the nights till he gives the world an invention?

Cromwell believed that he would personally bring about the second coming of Christ.

Leonardo believed that sight was the most significant sense of all and that one’s eyes were the most important.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.” – King George VI.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.