I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

For an adventurous life, seek not security. Dance with uncertainty to create magnificence and beauty.

His eyes said what I cannot see.

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

Real people aren't perfect; they fall down and mess up and screw up. Those are the kind of people that I look to, and I've always aspired to just be authentic.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.