Only Americans can hurt America.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

I never have really become accustomed to the ‚John.‘ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

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.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

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

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

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.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

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

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

The term ‚the American Left‘ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.