"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living."

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world--or to make it the last."

"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

"When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days"

"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God"

"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last."

"If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up."

"It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple"

"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world."

"I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die."

"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

"I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them."

"No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors."

"...you look at me like an emergency"

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters that beak which grips her, she becomes."

"War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure."

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

"Our intention was to cover our costs. We're not shy of any surplus, but it was not the aim. After 20 years, Band Aid is still active, and we are still funding projects -- this will simply help us fund even more projects."

"The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."

"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."

"The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear."

"There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio."

"You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble."

"[Last year] was the year that the digital music market took shape."

"All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents"

"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen revolution inevitable."

"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

"The great enemy of thruth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth - persistent, contrived and unrealistic. beliefs in myths allows the comfort od opinion without the discomfort of thought."

"Within the space of 10 weeks, two courts in different continents and hemispheres have given a huge boost to the efforts by music and technology companies to forge a legal online music business."

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning."

"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."

"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."

"But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

"World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."

"When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working."

"If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the riverbed with its five fingers spread"

"The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth."

"Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep."