One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.|Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer.|Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education|Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.|Albert Einstein
Two things inspire me to awe--the stary heavens and the moral universe within.|Albert Einstein
I prefer silent vice to ostentation virtue.|Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite. the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.|Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.|Albert Einstein
Teaching should be such that what is offered is percieved as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.|Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of a teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.|Albert Einstein
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.|Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as the judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.|Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.|Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.|Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.|Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.|Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.|Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.|Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path ot genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.|Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.|Albert Einstein
Peace can not be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.|Albert Einstein
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.|A. J. Musti
As long as armies exist, any serious conflict will lead to war.|Albert Einstein
You can not simultaineously prevent and prepare for war.|Albert Einstein
Warfare can not be humanized. It can only be abolished.|Albert Einstein
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.|Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.|Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism--how passionately I hate them!|Albert Einstein
The art of living is in making the right mistakes.|Stefan Schulz
Winners lose more often than losers.|Anonymous
Wise are they that know they know not.|Socrates
Free and responsible government by popular consent just can't exist without an informed public.|Bill Moyers
Enliven imagination, stand for truth, feel responsibility.|Rudolf Steiner
Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?|Shirdi Sai Baba
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.|Harvey Mackay
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.|Booker T Washington
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.|Alfred N. Whitehead
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.|John Steinbeck
You can't talk your way out of a situation you behave yourself into.|Steven Covey
Catch a man a fish feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and feed him for life.|Chinese Proverb
Better to go home and make a net, than dive for fish at random.|Chinese Proverb
I keep six honest servingmen, (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who.|Rudyard Kipling
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than the giant himself.|Didacus Stella, circa CE 60
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.|Isaac Newton
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.|Samuel Johnson
The most important thing in life is not to capitalise on your successes any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.|William Bolitho
It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.|Antoine de SaintExupery, from The Little Prince
Everybody can get angry that's easy. But getting angry at the right person, with the right intensity, at the right time, for the right reason and in the right way that's hard.|Aristotle
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.|Samuel Jefferson
Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.|Steven Covey
Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.|Leonardo Da Vinci
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.|Confucius
When you are thirsty, it's too late to dig a well.|Japanese Proverb
The future of work consists of learning a living.|Marshall McLuhan
The best time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining.|John F. Kennedy
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and dance; one cannot fly into flying.|Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.|Friedrich Nietzsche
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.|Linus Pauling
I praise loudly. I blame softly.|Catherine the Great
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans, unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.|Karl Rove, Republican political advisor
One does not discover new lands without consenting to leave sight of the shore for a very long time.|Andre Gide
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred."|Bhagavad Gita
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he (sic) is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.|US Supreme Court Opinion, Brown vs. Board of Education Decision
 [H]e educated the sons of chieftains in the liberal arts and gave higher marks to the talents of the Britons than to the studied skill of the Gauls, with the result that those who recently rejected the Latin language desired eloquence. Then too our manner of dress became stylish and there was widespread use of the toga; and gradually they gave in to the attractions of vices, porticoes and baths and the elegance of banquets. And this was called civilization among those who did not know better, *although it was part of slavery.*|Tacitus
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.|Edward Abbey
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.|J. Krishnamurti
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g, men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.|Aristotle, <i>Nichomachean Ethics</i>
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.|Carl Jung
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.|Epectetus
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.|Maya Angelou
It's never too late to be what you might have been.|George Eliot
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
When people show you who they are, believe them.|Maya Angelou
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.|Louisa May Alcott
It's not just the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.|Sir Edmond Hillary
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not accident or time or forture that keeps you from the things you want, but rather, your own thinking.|Lillian Hellman
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that is necessary for believing in it.|Ugo Betti
I finally figured out the best reason to be alive is to  enjoy it.|Rita Mae Brown
In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.|President Dwight Eisenhower, January 1961
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.|Tacitus
We could have saved a lot more of our people if only they had known that they were slaves.|Harriet Tubman
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great [person] is unique.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.|Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
A man's character is his fate.|Heraclitus (540 BCE - 480 BCE)
Things do not change; we change.|Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.|Plato (427 BCE - 347 BCE)
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.|Alec Bourne
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.|Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.|Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.|Gail Godwin
Only the educated are free.|Epictetus (55 CE- 135 CE)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.|H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.|James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.|Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.|Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It is only the ignorant who despise education.|Publilius Syrus (~100 BCE)
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.|Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.|Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.|Albert Einstein
Bodily exercize, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.|Plato (428-348 BCE)
When government operates in secret, the ability of the public to hold the government accountable is imperiled.|U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman
Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning.|Garrison Keillor
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.|TS Eliot, <i>The Hollow Men</i>
I am not what I know. I know not what I am. A thing, yet not a thing. A point as well as a circle.|Angelus Selisius, German Mystic
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?|US President Woodrow Wilson
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.|US President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins) Ref: "The Lincoln Encyclopedia", Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)
Forgive them, for they know not what they do.|Jesus of Nasareth
It may well be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the appalling silence of the so-called good people.|Martin Luther King, Jr.
F**k your parliament and your constitution...If your Prime Minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament and constitutions, he, his parliament and his constitution (Greece) may not last very long.|US President Lyndon Johnson
I hold that a little revolution now and then is a good thing.|Thomas Jefferson
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.|Benjamin Disraeli
The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.|US President Truman
It is more difficult to organize peace than to win a war, but the fruits of war will be lost of the peace is not well organized.|Aristotle
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.|US President Abraham Lincoln
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. |Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our creator - I am doing the Lord's work.|Adolf Hitler
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind...And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.|William Shakespeare
Power is actualized only where word and deed have not parted company, where words are not empty and deeds not brutal, where words are not used to veil intentions but to disclose realities, and deeds are not used to violate and destroy but to establish relations and create new realities.|Hannah Arendt
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.|John F. Kennedy
fas-cism (fash'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. |The American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.|Propaganda Minister Goebbels
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of family feud.|Hellen Keller
That's why we're now promoting nuclear energy. It makes sense for this country to use safe, clean nuclear power.|George W. Bush
I wouldn't call it looting, I would call it survival that was happening.|Corey Nixon (Survivor of the 2005 flood of New Orleans)
People were frustrated watching helicopters fly overhead without stopping to pick anyone up, and sometimes people felt threatened rather than comforted by police patrolling with M-16s.|Corey Nixon (2005 Hurricane survivor)
My Self is threatened to escape, lured by the world's pure light. Let now these intimations come to claim their rightful place, supplanting thinking's power that tends to lose itself in the bright wonder of the senses.|Rudolph Steiner
Nature's charms that thrill the sense are all subdued in autumn now; The radiance of the light appears through veils of darkening mist. I gaze into the widths of space and see there autumn's winter-sleep. The summer has surrendered itself to me.|Rudolph Steiner
The Nicaraguan Contras are the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.|Ronald Reagan
The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.|Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture 2005
We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'.|Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture 2005
 I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man.|Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture 2005
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.The giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.  We need a true revolution of values to unseat the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.  A nation that continues year after year to pour money into war and ignoring social uplift is approaching spiritual death.|Martin Luther King, Jr.
No other educational system in the world gives such a central role to the arts as the Waldorf school movement. Even mathematics is presented in an artistic fashion and related via dance, movement or drawing, to the child as a whole. Anything that can be done to further these revolutionary educational ideas will be of the greatest importance.|Konrad Oberhuber, Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University
The selective disregard for international law by the United States in the context of the 'war on terror' has enormous influence over the rest of the world. When the US commits serious human rights violations it sends a signal to abusive governments that these practices are permissible. This is why Guantanamo Bay is so important: it tells other governments that they can commit human rights violations in the name of counter-terrorism too.|Amnesty International: AMR 51/029/2006
Our nation must undergo a radical revolution of values beginning with a shift from a &quot;thing-oriented&quot; society to a &quot;person-oriented&quot; society.|Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967
The war is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit. In the words of the late John F. Kennedy, 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.' |Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.|Mahatma Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.|Mahatma Gandhi
To wonder at beauty, <br />Stand guard over truth, <br />Look up to the noble, <br />Decide for the good, <br /> <br /> <br />This surely will lead me <br />To purpose in living, <br />To right in my actions, <br />To peace in my feeling, <br />To clarity in my thinking, <br /> <br /> <br />And to teach me to trust <br />In love and compassion <br />For all that there is  <br />In the wide, wide world, <br />And in the depths of my soul.|Rudolph Steiner
Patriotism is egoism writ large; it's group egoism.|Karen Armstrong
Don't take refuge in delusion.|Karen Armstrong
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.|Samuel Adams
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.|Henry Ward Beecher
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.|Charles F. Browne
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.-- Calvin Coolidge
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.|Clarence Darrow
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!|Steven Decatur
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.|Nathan Hale's last words before being hanged by British.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!|Patrick Henry
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.|Andrew Johnson
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.|John F. Kennedy
(W)e here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.|Abe Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.|Abraham Lincoln
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.|Richard Nixon
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS|Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.|Thomas Paine
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.|Colin Powell
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.|The Pledge Of Allegiance
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.|Ronald Reagan
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.|Ronald Reagan
In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead|Ronald Reagan
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America.|Teddy Roosevelt
Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!|John Stark at the Battle of Bennington in 1777
I venture to suggest that partiotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.|Adali Stevenson
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a patriot.|Mark Twain
I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's and Truth's. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.|Daniel Webster
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.|John Wayne
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.|Woodrow Wilson
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong|Ronald Reagan
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done|Ronald Reagan
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.|Ronald Reagan
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge|and pray to God we have not lost it|that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest|Ronald Reagan
Putting people first has always been America's secret weapon. It's the way we've kept the spirit of our revolutions alive'a spirit that drives us to dream and dare, and take great risks for a greater good|Ronald Reagan
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root|Ronald Reagan
America is too great for small dreams|Ronald Reagan
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.|Ronald Reagan
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."|Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong|Ronald Reagan
We are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich|Ronald Reagan
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free|Ronald Reagan
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits|not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty|Ronald Reagan
The ultimate determinate in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve; the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideas to which we are dedicated|Ronald Reagan
A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough|Ronald Reagan
I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?|Ronald Reagan
[N]o arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women|Ronald Reagan
The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.|Ronald Reagan
I hope that when you're my age you'll be able to say, as I have been able to say: we lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology|Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free|Ronald Reagan
In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.|Ronald Reagan 
