Archived Quotes

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

I've learned you are never too small to make a difference.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

We make the future sustainable

when we invest in the poor,

not when we insist on their suffering.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Well done is

better than

well said

The philosophy of the school room in one generation

will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Fashion is not about utility.

It is about joy.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days

three such days with you I could fill with more delight

than fifty common years could ever contain.

Courage is contagious.

When a brave man takes a stand,

the spines of others are often stiffened.

We are stubborn on vision.

We are flexible on details.

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.

Nearly every man who develops an idea

works it up to the point where it looks impossible,

and then he gets discouraged.

That's not the place to become discouraged.

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If you’re twenty two,

physically fit,

hungry to learn and be better,

I urge you to travel — as far and as widely as possible.

All that I am,

or ever hope to be,

I owe to my mother.

We Americans...

bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I’m just a kid from Akron,

trying to make the most of every opportunity.

John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space,

his courage,

and his service to all Americans.

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