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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

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The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.

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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.

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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

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In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

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