"How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith."

-- Archibald MacLeish

#Determination Quotes #Lying Quotes #Finals Quotes

“God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.”
“Every day I do something that freaks me out.”
“Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.”

Source : "Tales of Moonlight and Rain". Book by Ueda Akinari, www.newyorker.com. 1776.
“The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.”
“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
“I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.”
“Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.”

Source : Henry L. Stimson's diary statement on the WWII Internment of Japanese Americans, February 10, 1942.

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