There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

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.

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.

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

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

They say miracles are past.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Children always turn to the light.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

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.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Marriage is the death of hope.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.