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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Meade
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free."
"War is hell."
"It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
" Liberty is one thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others."
"Liberty is the one thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others."
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
We are now engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure,... "
"Ask not what your country
can do for you; Ask What You Can Do for Your Country."
"Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another..."
"Our Constitution is founded on the principle that all are equal as citizens and are entitled to the same rights, whether they achieve citizenship by birth or after coming here as immigrants, seeking to find in America new freedom and new opportunities." John F. Kennedy 1960
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good people to do nothing."
"Freedom is nothing else but the chance to be better."
"Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain."
"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction,
should it ever come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people
to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence."
"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
"If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children."
"For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to
believe in it. One must work for it."
"Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world
has come to an end or that you are a worthless person."
"Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
"Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth -- in other words,
conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words -- in other words,
keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. This requires an integrated character, a oneness,
primarily with self but also with life."
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
"It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world.
If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of
the world's religions is a sacred duty."
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
In times of war bells were melted down to make cannons.
In times of peace cannons were melted down to make bells.
"The gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! But there is no peace. The war has actually begun!
The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!
Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that the gentlemen wish?
What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains
and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give
me liberty or give me death!"
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."
"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
"The best things in life aren't things."
"TRUTH: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
"Mistakes are stepping stones to success."
"A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder."
"I start where the last man left off."
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth." |
