All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

The little man is still a man.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

And every human being is precious.

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.