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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.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.