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.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

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

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

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.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

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

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

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.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

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

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

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

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

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.