"Some of the mission groups that have..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“Our rich and varied cultural heritage has aprofound power to help build our nation”

“We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.”

“It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

“Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.”

“Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.”

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”

“I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.”

“We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.”

“Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.”