The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don’t prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
It is today that we create the world of the future.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.
We do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It’s about doing, being and becoming. It’s about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.
If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.
Make the most of what you have, when you have it, where you are.
If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing.
If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
There are no have-to’s, just choices.