My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.