Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. Thats why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. – Mortimer Adler
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. – Abraham Lincoln