“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”
Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston. April 18, 1859.
Carl Schurz [1829-1906]
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett. Little, Brown and Company 1955. Page 644.
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