If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.