A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.