That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

America is the greatest country in the world.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

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

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

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

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.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.