Archived Quotes

God, our Creator, has

stored within our minds

and personalities,

great potential

strength and ability.

Prayer helps us tap

and develop these powers.

I wish to preach,

not the doctrine of ignoble ease,

but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple,

and may, as a rule,

be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

If you give people tools,

and they use their natural abilities and curiosity,

they will develop things…

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race.

We don't discriminate against anyone.

We teach people to reach their highest potential.

I set examples by the way I lead my life.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

The people themselves,

and not their servants,

can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Don't make excuses.

Revolutionaries should be guided by morality.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases

which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Whoever is careless with

the truth in small matters

cannot be trusted with

important matters.

If you don't

give up,

no one can

beat you.

Yeah,

Wacko Jacko,

where did that come from?

Some English tabloid.

I have a heart and I have feelings.

I feel that when you do that to me.

It's not nice.

The grand aim of all science is to cover

the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction

from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Happiness is secured through virtue;

it is a good attained by living well.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old,

but of the natural.

Shoot for the stars,

but keep your feet on the ground.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs,

there is no need of bloodshed and war.

There is no necessity for it.

I am not in favor of such a course,

and I may say in advance,

there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government.

The government will not use force unless force is used against it.