For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

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.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

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.

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

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

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.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

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

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

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.

I do not pilfer victory.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.