Jackie Robinson

American baseball player
(1919-1972)

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

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Douglas MacArthur

American General
(1880-1964)

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Americans never quit.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

American President
(1882-1945)

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.


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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian Composer
(1756-1791)

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

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Daniel Webster

American Statesman
(1782-1852)

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it 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, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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Albert Schweitzer

Alsatian Medical Missionary
(1875-1965)

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

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George Foreman

American Boxer
(1949- )

I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.


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Alexander Hamilton

American statesman
(1755-1804)

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. [Think they have FAILED this one.]

In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. [They have this one down to perfection....makes one wonder, does it not?]

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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Elmer Davis

US newspaperman, radio commentator, and author
(1890-1958)

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.


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Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;

To be understood as to understand;

To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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Sir Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist
(1642-1727)

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.


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George Washington Carver

US agricultural chemist
(1864-1903)

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.


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