American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it… Never.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

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

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

Life is short, the art long.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.