Us Quotes

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.