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Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

Lastly, and possibly most important, forests make this earth comfortable and beautiful. Next to the soil, they are the most useful and helpful of Nature's agencies.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

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.

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.

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

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.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

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.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.