Us Quotes

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.