Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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.

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.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

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.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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

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.

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

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Big results require big ambitions.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

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

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.