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We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

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With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

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The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

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In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit.

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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

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