Notable Quotes

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” -Robert F. Kennedy

“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.” -Robert F. Kennedy

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” -Ronald Reagan

“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.” -Ronald Reagan

“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.” -Ronald Reagan

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” -John F. Kennedy

“Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” -John F. Kennedy

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” -John F. Kennedy

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” -John F. Kennedy

“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” -John F. Kennedy

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” -John F. Kennedy

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.” -John F. Kennedy

“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” -John F. Kennedy