But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

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.

America is the greatest country in the world.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

You can’t generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

New roads; new ruts.

Africa will thrive.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.