The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

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

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Freedom lies in being bold.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Genius is patience.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.