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“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.”

— Nelson Mandela

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our…”

— Nelson Mandela

“Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“We can be deceived by believing what is untrue, but we certainly are also deceived by not believing what is true.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Be attentive therefore, according to the instruction of the Gospel, to learn obedience from the lily and the bird.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant!”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization.”

— Victor Hugo

“A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

— Charles Dickens

“The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government.”

— Charles Dickens

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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