After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

A right delayed is a right denied.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models – we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

Who of us has not had that situation where you’ve got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, ‚Well, I don’t know if your insurance company is going to cover this?‘ Let’s eliminate all of that.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Effective action is always unjust.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

No public man can be just a little crooked.