An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.