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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

His cheery optimism never failed, even when food was very short and the prospect of relief seemed remote.

The demons of depression could find no foothold when he was around

Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.

Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope.

If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

The power of one person — Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala — one person can change the world by giving people hope.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

A race cannot be purified from without.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms

Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.