Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. – We are the ones We’ve been waiting for. – We are the change that we seek.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.