I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.