I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

People want you to fail.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

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

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

The only way round is through.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

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.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

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.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

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

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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!

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.