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Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.

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.

Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.

An Administration would be unworthy of confidence at home or respect abroad should it cease to be influenced by the conviction that no apparent advantage can be purchased at a price so dear as that of national wrong or dishonor.

Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

Preeminently, the power of our advocacy reposes in our example; but no example, be it remembered, can be powerful for lasting good, whatever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice.

Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.

At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.