“No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.”

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

The cost of freedom is always high.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

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

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.

Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

I’m committed to my family.

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?

Now is the time to show your responsibility and commitment to all life, including your own.

I commit to a lifetime of unlearning the poison of white supremacy that is still alive and continues to cause suffering.

Though the heart loves it is the mind that commits such passions to memory.