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We can't all be heroes

 


We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness. - Norman Vincent Peale

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. - Thomas Paine, The Crisis, no. 4, September 11, 1777

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. - Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

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