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.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
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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.
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.
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
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It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
This is the thing that I was born to do.
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.
The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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.
There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important, and you do that by being genuine and humble.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...
A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
