Lucy

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and civilization, would embrace them.”
― Landon Y. Jones, William Clark and the Shaping of the West

“there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.”
― Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation

“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man