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- 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
- Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Unknown
- There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
- Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign
- This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
- General Omar Bradley
- A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
- Knights of Pythagoras
- Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Appius Claudius
- Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
- Unknown
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