No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

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"Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed."

- John Jay

Relationships

"The establishment of civil and religious liberty was the motive which induced me to the field."

- John Jay

Motivation

"Those who own the country ought to govern it."

- John Jay

Leadership

"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other."

- John Jay

Connection to Earth

"The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts."

- John Jay

Spirituality

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"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

Respect

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

Respect

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

Respect

"People get built different. We don’t have to figure it out. We just have to respect it."

- Princess Bubblegum

Respect

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."

- Bryant McGill

Respect