"Peace, like war, can succeed only where..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.”

“I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.”

“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”

“Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties”

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

“We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.”

“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”

“Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.”

“Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.”