Our Quotes

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.