We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
BARACK OBAMAOf all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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