"The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will."
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"A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money."
"If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors."
"Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world."
"My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again."
"Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil"
"They most the world enjoy who least admire."
"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world."
"The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause."
"Little things that run the world."
"The record industry is a world within itself."
"The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods."
"I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me."
"The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations."
"what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical."
"What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now."
"I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions."
"What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people."
"Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too."
"After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time."