"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

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"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."

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"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."

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"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

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"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."

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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

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"One and God make a majority."

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"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Hate is hostility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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