“How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
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“There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.”
“We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools.”
“Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.”
“Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”
“We have been in the mountain of moral and ethical relativism long enough.”
“But oh! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own.”
“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold a sheep-hook.”
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, now thou art gone and never must return!”
“So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, through the dear might of him that walked the waves.”
“Mirth, admit me of thy crew, to live with her, and live with thee, in unreproved pleasures free.”
“These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.”
“Till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain.”
“The oracles are dumb; no voice or hideous hum runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.”
“I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.”
“I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.”