Richard Baxter Quotes

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

That one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

What good is to be expected from creating division when engaged in war …?

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

The strength of all free peoples lies in unity; their danger, in discord

Can this new people, so advantageously placed for giving an example to the world of a constitution under which man may enjoy his rights, freely exercise all his faculties, and be governed only by nature, reason and justice — Can they form such a Constitution? — Can they establish it upon a never failing foundation, and guard against every source of division and corruption which may gradually undermine and destroy it? ... It is impossible not to wish ardently that this people may attain to all the prosperity of which they are capable. They are the hope of the world. They may become a model to it. They may prove by fact that men can be free and yet tranquil; and that it is in their power to rescue themselves from the chains in which tyrants and knaves of all descriptions have presumed to bind them under the pretense of the public good. They may exhibit an example of political liberty, of religious liberty, of commercial liberty, and of industry.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity.

Before competition, as I stand in shoulder pads and cleats, my helmet in my left hand, adrenaline flowing and my heart raging under my right, I never forget the ills of America, but for a moment I envision its potential, remember its prosperity, and give thanks to God for the land He has placed me in and the people I love who live in it.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred.

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.