馃嚭馃嚫 On Leadership & Government
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
- “Government鈥檚 legitimate function is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot do so well for themselves.”
- “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
- “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
- “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
- “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
馃 On Unity & Justice
- “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
- “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.”
- “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
- “In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bittersweet agony, because it takes them unawares.”
- “It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
馃挰 On Duty & Character
- “I have stepped out upon the world stage at a time when, and in a country where, I was very likely to be misunderstood.”
- “The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
- “It is not the years in your life that count, it鈥檚 the life in your years.”
- “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
- “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
鉂わ笍 On Freedom & Equality
- “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
- “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
- “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation鈥檚 wounds.”
- “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.”
- “I do not believe in the divinity of Jesus, but I do believe that Jesus was a great man, a teacher of morality.”
