"A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. This is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society. That is what gives a nation its tone, its fiber, its integrity, its moral style, its capacity to endure."

-- John W. Gardner

#Attitude Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Giving Quotes

“He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.”
“It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.”
“Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung.”
“Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.”
“You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.”
“Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.”
“The sacred influence of light appears.”
“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”

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