 What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
– Albert Pike (1809-1891) |
Tag Archives: service
Henry Ford – A business devoted to service
 A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
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Edmund Burke – Responsibility of a representative
 Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
– Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
Michel de Montaigne – Premeditation of death/liberty
 The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
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Martin Luther King – Everybody can be great
 Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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John F. Kennedy – The role of defending freedom
 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
