"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality."

Kennedy, John F. on obstacles
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"Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18]"

Bible on vision
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Churchill, Winston on vision
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"Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision
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"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on vision
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"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."

Proverb, Japanese on vision
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"Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?"

Shaw, George Bernard on vision
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"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

Swift, Jonathan on vision
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"It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours."

Kennedy, John F. on ecology   

"Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance."

Kennedy, John F. on economy and economics   

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

Kennedy, John F. on education
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"In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside."

Kennedy, John F. on effort
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"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

Kennedy, John F. on aid and assistance   

"There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press."

Kennedy, John F. on media   

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on liberty
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"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."

Jefferson, Thomas on liberty   

"The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth
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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

Jefferson, Thomas on tyranny
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on vigilance
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"If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

Jefferson, Thomas on conquest
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"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."

Jefferson, Thomas on war   

"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news."

Disraeli, Benjamin on news   

"None loves the messenger who brings bad news."

Sophocles on news
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"It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked."

Unknown, Source on action
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"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another."

Colton, Charles Caleb on integrity
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"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it."

Eliot, George on integrity
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"Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements."

Erhard, Werner on integrity   

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."

Fuller, Buckminster on integrity
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"Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do."

Galer, Don on integrity
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth   

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Jefferson, Thomas on brevity
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Jefferson, Thomas on evolution
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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual."

Jefferson, Thomas on lies and lying
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"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."

Jefferson, Thomas on argument   

"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Jefferson, Thomas on art
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"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

Jefferson, Thomas on medicine
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"I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches."

Jefferson, Thomas on money   

"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."

Jefferson, Thomas on morality
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"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter."

Jefferson, Thomas on newspapers   

"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

Jefferson, Thomas on opinions