American Quotes

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.