December 19, 2025
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’ -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
A lie cannot live. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
How can a president not be an actor? -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
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. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Facts are stubborn things. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
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. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Trust, but verify. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
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. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth! -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Actors are one family over the entire world. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Don’t be afraid to see what you see. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
What you don’t do can be a destructive force. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
We are never defeated unless we give up on God. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We are not makers of history. We are made by history. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‘This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.’ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
You must do the things you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
What one has to do usually can be done. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Understanding is a two-way street. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
The giving of love is an education in itself. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Seeing is not always believing. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
People do not make wars; governments do. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
A right delayed is a right denied. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‘understand’ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We must use time creatively. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
One picture is worth 1,000 denials. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962Read more
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’ -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at? -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
A people free to choose will always choose peace. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
It is better to be alone than in bad company. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968Read more
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. -George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799Read more
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004Read more