Edwin M. Stanton Quotes

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

Typhoon damage happens when they hit land, and as humans, we've decided to destroy mangroves and hurt coral reefs. If we don't have barriers, the devastation is worse, and that is scary.

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I am a person who looks long-term, and I recognize the path we need to take. There will be moments when people are unhappy and disgruntled with some decision-making. Nonetheless, what matters most is to reach the destination. And my job as President is to see clearly where I want to go and be steadfast in my resolve to realize that vision

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

He has the qualities of a rock.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.