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~ For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life ~


~ Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. ~


~ You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too ~


~ Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. ~


~ The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything. ~


~ To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation ~


~ A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ~


~ Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home ~


~ It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~


~ Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer ~


~ Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it ~


~ Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends-those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work-who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?-now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail-if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come ~


~ Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe ~


~ A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children ~


~ It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy ~


~ Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights ~


~ Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State ~


~ Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all -- inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all ~


~ Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption ~


~ The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests ~


~ The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object ~


~ The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society ~


~ What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it ~


~ In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. ~


~ Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win ~


~ I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society ~


~ All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people ~


~ I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it ~


~ The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military ~


~ Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery ~


~ We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves ~


~ How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese? ~


~ The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves ~


~ You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne ~


~ We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both ~


~ The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments ~


~ Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy ~


~ Begin to weave and God will give the thread. ~


~ Where there is movement, there is improvement. ~


~ All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ~


~ I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. ~


~ Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~


~ Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. ~


~ Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. ~


~ Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ~


~ There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. ~


~ Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications,offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ~


~ A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever ~


~ Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. ~


~ Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever . . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. ~


~ Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything ~


~ There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are ~


~ Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. ~


~ Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~


~ While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see ~


~ Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. ~


~ Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. ~


~ Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ~


~ When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. ~


~ Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one ~



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