Us Quotes

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!