HOPE
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.