The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Abraham Lincoln·1863…And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick·1940Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Theodore Roosevelt·1902The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.
