If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

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Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

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It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

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There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

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One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

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Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

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