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If the freedom of speech is taken

away then dumb and silent we may be led,

like sheep to the slaughter.

Friendship with a man

is friendship with

his virtue.

It is with your aid, as the people,

that I think we shall be able to preserve

not the country, for the country will preserve itself,

but the institutions of the country

those institutions which have made us free,

intelligent and happy the most free, the most intelligent,

and the happiest people on the globe.

A man’s mind,

stretched by a new idea,

never regains its original size.

Be courteous to all,

but intimate with few,

and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Love means never having to say you're a zero.

Curiosity is one of the permanent

and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I love the poorly educated.

Every child is an artist.

The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

And I remember going to the record studio

and there was a park across the street

and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because

it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

The people who are crazy enough to think

they can change the world are the ones who do.

Man needs his difficulties

because they are necessary

to enjoy success.

Vulnerability is not winning or losing;

it’s having the courage to show up

and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.

Be authentic;

everything else is secondary.

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Economic strength gives a nation confidence.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.

I am willing to fight for peace.

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves

refuse to go to war.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.