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What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

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