My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.