“This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being perpetrated on our Democratic minorities in Maine and Vermont. My patience is almost at an end, and if provoked much further I will place both countries under American protection, even if I have to send in my tourists to start trouble so I'll have to send in a force to restore order.”
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“I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.”
“The voice of nature is always encouraging.”
“As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.”
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”
“Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.”
“The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.”
“For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.”
“Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?”
“The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.”
“My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.”
“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
“I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.”
“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
“God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.”
“The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.”
“The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.”
“Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.”
“Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.”