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One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

Man should make an art of thinking.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.

The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good.

Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.

Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.

Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.