Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to a process.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, “What’s your secret?” and I will tell them, “I just get up again when I fall down.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

When even one American, who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.