I Call A Complete And Generous Education That Which Fits A Man To Perform Justly, Skillfully, And Magnanimously All The Offices, Both Public And Private, Of Peace And War.

I Call A Complete And Generous Education That Which Fits A Man To Perform Justly, Skillfully, And Magnanimously All The Offices, Both Public And Private, Of Peace And War.

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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to
perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both
public and private, of peace and war.
-- John Milton

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Private enterprise ... makes OK private action which would be considered dishonest in public action.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)...
Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- To the Lord General Cromwell...
Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 65...
I think that when statesmen forsake their private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
-- Sir Thomas Moore to Cardinal Woolsey in _A Man for All Seasons_...
That power Which erring men call Chance. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 587
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 5...
Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and education.
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato...
. To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate....
Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sonnet xxii, To Cyriac Skinne...