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The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.

Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.

Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.

The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities.

We will lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example.

ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

Remember, then, that I, at least, have warned you, that the happiness of your life, and its power, and its part and rank in earth or in heaven, depend on the way you pass your days now.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.

There was a Care on my Mind so to pass my Time, that nothing might hinder me from the most steady Attention to the Voice of the true Shepherd.

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

Find your sole delight and recreation in proceeding from one unselfish action to another, with God ever in mind.

Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.

Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”