We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
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...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
A thief believes everybody steals.
A thief believes everybody steals.
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I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
