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 OBAMADon’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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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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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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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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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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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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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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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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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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