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"I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun."
"A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette."
"We must do that which we think we cannot."
"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."
"...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand."
"This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery."
"Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."
"The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was."
"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
"No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood."
"Change means the unknown."
"We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation."
"We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world."
"The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations."
"To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success."
"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
"I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)"
"Every day do something that frightens you."
"Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines."
"Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today."