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With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

The power of one person — Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala — one person can change the world by giving people hope.

You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope.

There are some national questions in the solution of which patriotism should exclude partisanship.

When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.

By holding the representative responsible only to the people, and exempting him from all other influences, we elevate the character of the constituent and quicken his sense of responsibility to his country.