Robert Francis was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. American poet
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. Go to Quote / Comment
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice. Go to Quote / Comment
In crises the most daring course is often safest. Go to Quote / Comment
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. Go to Quote / Comment
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. Go to Quote / Comment