Us Quotes

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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.

There is a god within us.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.