Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.
One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future.
Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there.
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.