George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States. He flew combat missions in World War II. This is part of a letter he wrote his five children before the start of the Gulf War in which he discussed the phrase.
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“Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech.
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Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men.
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Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression.
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Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts.”
“Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility.”
Baha’u’llah, The Baha’i World Faith