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 OBAMAMaking your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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