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"Give me the greatness of heart to see,
The difference between duty and his love for me.
Give me the understanding
so that I may know,
When duty calls him, he must go.
Give me a task to do each day,
To fill the time when he's away.
When he's in a foreign land,
Keep him safe in your loving hand." - Unknown
“Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex
mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.” Latin translation: “Love me faithfully! See how I am faithful
With all my heart And all my soul I am with you Through I am far away” - Unknown
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men and women stand ready to do violence on their
behalf." - George Orwell
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." - Amelia Earhart
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" - Emiliano Zapata
"The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave." - James A. LaFond-Lewis, November
11, 1999
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks". - Herodotus
"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all
have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?" - William Makepeace Thackeray
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." - John
Holt
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where
the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert, Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." - Eric Hoffer
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose
Redmoon
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt First inaugural address
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." - Margaret Mead
"Live free or die." - New Hampshire State Motto
"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond." - Dr.
Jeffrey Borenstein
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know
not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." - Leo Rosten
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." - Ralph W. Sockman
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America." - William J. Clinton
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural Address
"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords
of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad
land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
- Abraham Lincoln First inaugural address, March 4, 1861
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Unknown
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" ... From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth." From Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind ".
- John F. Kennedy
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings ". - Salvador
Dali
"Imagination is more important than knowledge ". - Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Let us begin ". - Mother Teresa
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing
is a miracle.
The other is to live as though everything is a miracle -Albert Einstein
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“If brave men and women never died, there wouldn’t be anything
special about bravery” - Andy Rooney
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
- Albert Einstein
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace." - Ulysses
S Grant
“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly
understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alexander
Hamilton
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every
virtue at the testing point." - Clive Staples Lewis
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments
of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test
a man's character, give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan
'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
"Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility
go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished." - Orison Swett Marden
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would
do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."
- Victor Frankl
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is
always ripe to do right." - Nelson Mendela
"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands
moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for..." - Thornton Wilder
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished
by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
"If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us."
- Francis Bacon
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to
do nothing." - Edmund Burke, 18th-century English political philosopher
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states,
nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." - Alexandr Solzhenitzyn, 20th-century
Russian Nobel Prize-winning novelist
"What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond
to what happens to us." - Jean-Paul Sartre, 20th-century Nobel Prize-winning, French existentialist writer
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -
Albert Einstein
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