"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Freedom Quotes #Flower Quotes #4th Of July Quotes

“The most courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the sky, born at one time and space, to be ourselves. Everybody is our neighbor. All we have to do is say, "I am with you." When you start being one with everybody, then you are actually with God, because if you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.”
“Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
“...things happen that are out of your control.' Kerrick gave him a tight smile. 'You mean I'm not omnipotent?' 'You're not even semi-potent.' 'Is that even a word?' Kerrick asked. 'He probably means you're impotent,' I offered.”
“Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.”
“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books
“Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.”
“It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.”
“The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.”

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