You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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.
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.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.