Thanksgiving signals the onset of winter.

Quotations about winter.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655

Every mile is two in winter.
George Herbert (1593 - 1633), Jacula Prudentum

One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Some quotes about Bureaucracy

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
Charles Peters

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - ), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman (1912 - )

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
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November is a time for voting.

Here is what the wise say about politicians

Under every stone lurks a politician. Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Knights, 424 B.C.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Maureen Murphy

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)

Some quotations from Theodore Roosevelt

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There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.