“... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 181 of 204
“Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.”
“To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems.”
“Making money isn't a bad thing at all - it allows for a lot more freedom.”
“I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone globally, freedom went with it. Science technology has always lifted up the standard of living on average of everybody on the planet. I want more of that, not less. There are civilizations that produce very little, if any. This western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.”
“Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.”
“America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want for ourselves we also want for others, not because we're imposing our system on others but because those opportunities belong to all people as God-given birthrights and because by promoting democracy and economic opportunity we make peace more secure.”
“Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it and protect it and then hand it to them, so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.”
“The future belongs to the free.”
“The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.”
“I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.”
“I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.”
“Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.”
“We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.”
“Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.”
“While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.”
“We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.”
“The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.”
“America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.”