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The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.

— Glenn Youngkin Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia (2022)

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If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.

Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia (2022)

Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the ability to show respect to one another. To disagree without being disagreeable.

Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia (2022)

Our politics have become too toxic. Soundbites have replaced solutions --- taking precedence over good-faith problem-solving.

Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia (2022)

I will remind you that it doesn’t end when you walk off these grounds. In fact, it becomes even more important because it is less expected in the world today. (It’s important to be) men who learn confidence and embrace moral excellence; men who, after you depart from here, can be counted on to be good citizens.

Address at Hampden-Sydney College (2025)

Hampden-Sydney stands for so much more than an education. It is based on a foundational belief that everyone in here was created in the image of God, and therefore, they deserve the respect to be treated as such. And that in order to represent not only that deep belief, but also the nation under which it was founded, you must be an active citizen.

Address at Hampden-Sydney College (2025)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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