I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David ThoreauHundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. BushFreedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand RussellThe precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.
Jurgen KloppImagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise PascalNo architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John RuskinI’m just a simple country girl.
Dolly PartonI submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Alexander PopeThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo me, we’re marketing hope.
Joel OsteenDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthurI have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice WalkerJust as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.
Jocko WillinkHe who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.
Charles SpurgeonHe who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
PlatoLove can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand RussellI am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
George H. W. BushLord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.
Charles SpurgeonA soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon BonaparteWithout freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin FranklinThere is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaA man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark TwainI feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
Martin LutherEven if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin LutherHope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George EliotEverywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. BushI spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.
Mark Zuckerberg‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
Charles SpurgeonLittle children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George EliotFaith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Martin LutherNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James MadisonGenius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles BukowskiJustice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
HeraclitusI think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
Alice WalkerWe must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George WashingtonI love a natural look in pictures.
Marilyn MonroeHow wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya AngelouThe real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
Thich Nhat HanhLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainThe highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.
Jordan PetersonIt is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas JeffersonThere are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
Terry PratchettI have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.
Michelle ObamaI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnOf Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander PopeAbove all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
Che GuevaraPeople tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.
Greta ThunbergA child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho MarxIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.
Bill GatesI am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin DisraeliAdvocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand RussellHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon