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“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Putting people first has always been America's secret weapon. It's the way we've kept the spirit of our revolutions alive -- a spirit that drives us to dream and dare, and take great risks for a greater good.”
Ronald Reagan
“If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.”
Buddha
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
Stephen R. Covey
“Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”
William Shakespeare
“Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself.”
Elias A. Ford
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
Oscar Wilde
“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
Corazon Aquino
“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero