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- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
- The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Seven Lectures to a Young Man, 1844
- Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), First Inaugural Adress, 1801
- I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879), The Purpose of Education, Maroon Tiger, January-February 1947
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
- Marcus Claudius Tacitus
- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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