“Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.”
Optimistic feeling
Optimistic Quotes — page 172 of 204
“Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.”
“There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.”
“America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.”
“I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.”
“Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional”
“The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.”
“Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.”
“We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come off". We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace.”
“With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.”
“There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause”
“Dreams can never be made captive.”
“Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.”
“What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.”
“You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?”
“More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.”
“Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.”
“We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.”
“We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.”
“India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.”