France has more need of me than I have need of France.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A witty saying proves nothing.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

In married life three is company and two none.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

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.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

A lie cannot live.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.