Frederic Tudor quotes

Frederic Tudor quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never will be a hero in war, love, or business.”
-- Frederic Tudor

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“A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.”
-- Frederic Tudor

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“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”
“No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”
“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
“Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.”
“Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldnâ€™t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed”
“The heaviest blow which ever struck humanity was Christianity; Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.”
“Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.”
“Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”

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