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“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It is only the sanguinary hue of our penal laws which I meant to object to. Punishments I know are necessary, and I would provide them strict and inflexible, but proportioned to the crime. Death might be inflicted for murder and perhaps for treason, [but I] would take out of the description of treason all crimes which are not such in their nature. Rape, buggery, etc., punish by castration. All other crimes by working on high roads, rivers, gallies, etc., a certain time proportioned to the offence... Laws thus proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the lawgiver, but let the judge be a mere machine. The mercies of the law will be dispensed equally and impartially to every description of men; those of the judge or of the executive power will be the eccentric impulses of whimsical, capricious designing man.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Former US president Woodrow Wilson said, “If you want to make enemies, change something.”
John C. Maxwell

“But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Passion is that strong and mostly uncontrollable feeling of love that one has towards what he want to do or does. It is dependent on emotions.” 
Israelmore Ayivor

“Has God designated any one person here on earth to speak with final authority about Him? No—the one Man who could do that lived two thousand years ago, and we crucified Him!”
Billy Graham

“Words have a tremendous impact on all our lives. I know people who have lived lives of crippling insecurity because their parents spoke words of judgment, criticism, and failure to them on a regular basis.”
Joyce Meyer

“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows to the divine superiority, when he repents and says humbly: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Man’s extremity then becomes God’s opportunity.”
Billy Graham

“Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do.”
John C. Maxwell

“God’s Word not only gives authority to one’s ministry; it provides a solid foundation for one’s life.”
Billy Graham

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother Teresa

“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
Albert Einstein

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
Thomas Jefferson

“When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund”
C.S. Lewis

“I’m not speaking defeat into my future. I’m not speaking failure over my life. I will turn it around and speak favor into my future. I will declare, “I’m blessed. I’m strong. I’m healthy. This will be a great year.” When you do that, you are blessing your future.”
Joel Osteen

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