"India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression."

-- Stafford Cripps

#Being Free Quotes #Special Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.”
“It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.”
“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.”
“Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.”
“Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.”

Source : Mark Nesbit, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1996). “Through Blood & Fire”, p.24, Stackpole Books
“I didn't listen to executives.”
“Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.”

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