“The Chinese people have stood up.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 86 of 204
“Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.”
“If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever. Before it is too late, we need your help to lay the foundation that will preserve this precious legacy long after we are gone.”
“When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?”
“Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children”
“As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.”
“But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in Europe. They sought liberty and opportunity; and their strong sense of purpose has over two centuries, helped create a new unity and pride in being American.”
“We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.”
“Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.”
“Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.”
“In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.”
“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”
“To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.”
“America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.”
“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.”
“The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.”
“When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.”
“To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.”
“Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."”
“As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”