Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The best way to attack is to defend well.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you're not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart..

There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended

In analyzing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

We must on all occasions, avoid a general action, nor put anything to the risk unless compelled by a necessity into which we ought never to be drawn. The war must be defensive, a war of posts. I have never spared the spade and the pickaxe.

I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

Sometimes we look at patterns, and we look at things that are happening, and sometimes you can't dismiss everything as a conspiracy.

Don't give them 3-point shots if that's what they're trying to do and embarrass you in any way.

It's all about being sharp and not taking too much damage. That's always the game plan.

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause.

The prevent defense prevents victory.

I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.