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Fictional Character Quotes

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English Proverbs

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Scientist Quotes

svenny — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:43:33 CDT

Albert Einstein
Alexander Fleming
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Darwin
Galileo
George Washington Carver
Hippocrates
Louis Pasture
Marie Curie

Darth Vader Quotes

quaze12 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:39:51 CDT

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
"You don't know the power of the dark side!"
"Luke, I am your father!."
"Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and soon the fall of the rebellion."
"The force is strong with this one."
"I sense something, a presence I've not felt since......."
"You should not have come back!"
"The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force."
"Just for once, let me look at your face with my own eyes."
"I've been waiting for you, Obi-wan. We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master."
"Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them."
"Obi-Wan has taught you well."
" Obi-Wan once thought as you do. You don't know the power of the Dark Side, I must obey my master."
"It is too late for me, son. The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master now."
"You are unwise to lower your defenses!"
" As you wish."
"No. Leave them to me. I will deal with them myself."
"My son is with them."
"You cannot hide forever, Luke."
"Don't fail me again, Admiral."
"Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses."
"He will join us or die, my master."
"Alert all commands. Calculate every possible destination along their last
known trajectory."
"Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me."
"The force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet."
"What is thy bidding, my master?"
"When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master."

Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

CassandraSmith — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:14:49 CDT

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
"A man without a vote is man without protection."
"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."
"Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else."
"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."
"Every President wants to do right."
"Freedom is not enough."
"Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife."
"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order."
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
"I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display."
"I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence."
"I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam."
"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard."
"I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it."
"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."
"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."
"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women."
"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's."
"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."
"I'm the only president you've got."
"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."
"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." "
"If the American people don't love me, their descendants will."
"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
"If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed."
"In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic."
"It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed."
"It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me."
"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."
"It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought."
"Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store."
"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."
"John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many."
"Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!"
"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
"One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President."
"Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it."
"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."
"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation."
"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam."
"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life."
"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."
"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good."
"The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky."
"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."
"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."
"The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure."
"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. "
"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America."
"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands."
"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."
"The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being."
"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."
"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.""There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility."
"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."
"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."
"This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty."
"This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it."
"This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you."
"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."
"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."
"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."
"We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else."
"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man."
"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law."
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."
"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."
"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."
"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner."
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
"When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention."
"Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel."
"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."
"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
"You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy."
"You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote."

Heraclitus Quotes

firstprac — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:42:07 CDT

"A man's character is his fate."
"A man's character is his guardian divinity."
"Big results require big ambitions."
"Bigotry is the sacred disease."
"Change alone is unchanging."
"Everything flows, nothing stands still."
"Character is destiny."
"Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung."
"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things."
"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."
"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."
"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."

Kedar Joshi Quotes

firstprac — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:39:17 CDT

“The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.”

“The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.”

“The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.”

“In reality the universe has no geometry.”

“Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.”

“The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.”

“God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.”

“The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.”

“In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find "the ultimate questioner" - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.”

“Man is programmed to find the programmer.”

About this wiki

Farore — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:27:49 CST

So, you might be asking, what's a 'wiki?'

Yogi always had a quote or two. How about you? See how you can pitch in and check out 'pages needing help!'

A wiki is a collaboratively authored website. That's a fancy way of saying it's a site that has been created, edited and maintained by famous quote fans like you. The idea is that is gets better with time and participation.

eQuotes was founded by Phillip Barnett and Stephen Burke on September 24, 2007 as part of a class project and it took off from there! You can read more about staff members here.

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Pages needing help

wetpaint — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:30:50 CST

Hey Quote fans! This site is growing leaps and bounds, but it can always be better. Following is a list of pages and some suggested improvements. Please check them out and pitch in!

These pages are just list of links which is effective, but a bit boring. How about a table with thumbnail site images for each person? I started the Sports Quotes page as an example!


Scientist Quotes
Comic Quotes
American Revolution Quotes
Astronaut Quotes

Where in the World is Albert Einstein?

wetpaint — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:30:27 CST

Lately eQuotes has become very popular in foreign countries. This page is a list of all the countries who have visited the site. The eQuotes crew will be trying to add proverbs pages for all of the countries who have visited in their honor.

The United States of America	Canada
United Kingdom	Finland
Poland	India
Bulgeria	Australia
Japan	China
Russia	Ireland
Denmark	France
Mexico	Brazil
Argentina	Chile

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George W Bush Quotes

JackStuder — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:28:36 CDT

"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers."
"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."
"Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us."
"Bring them on."
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.'' —Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

Kurt Cobain Quotes

LC41 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:56:45 CDT

"A friend is nothing but an unknown enemy."
"Don't expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die."
"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem."
"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me."
"I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else."
"I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't."
"I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude."
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
"I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head."
"I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first."
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me."
"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."
"If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first."
"It's better to burn out than fade away."
"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."
"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
"Rather be dead than cool."
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
"The worst crime is faking it."
"Thought the sun is gone, I have a light."
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
"We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers."
"We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves."

Jerry Garcia

Jgroves4ward2 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:33:00 CDT

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
Jerry Garcia

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
Jerry Garcia

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
Jerry Garcia

And the live show is still our main thing.
Jerry Garcia

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
Jerry Garcia

And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.
Jerry Garcia

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
Jerry Garcia

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
Jerry Garcia

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
Jerry Garcia

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
Jerry Garcia

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
Jerry Garcia

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
Jerry Garcia

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
Jerry Garcia

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
Jerry Garcia

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
Jerry Garcia

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
Jerry Garcia

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
Jerry Garcia

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.
Jerry Garcia

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.
Jerry Garcia

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
Jerry Garcia

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
Jerry Garcia

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills.
Jerry Garcia

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.
Jerry Garcia

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.
Jerry Garcia

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
Jerry Garcia

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
Jerry Garcia

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
Jerry Garcia

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.
Jerry Garcia

Literature Quotes

mykeymyke — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:12:14 CDT

Aesop
C S Lewis
Dr. Seuss
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Ian Fleming
J K Rowling
JRR Tolkien
Lord Byron
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tom Clancy
Voltaire
William Shakespeare

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

mykeymyke — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:24:59 CDT

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

"I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization."

"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me."

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

"In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book."

"The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity."

"There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."

"If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage."

"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong."

"There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite."

Nelson Mandela Quotes

mykeymyke — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:07:01 CDT

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I learned that courage was not the abscence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I always remember the axiom: a leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Presidential Quotes

mykeymyke — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:43:45 CDT

Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Benjamin Harrison
Bill Clinton
Calvin Coolidge
Chester A. Arthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin Pierce
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
George H.W. Bush
George W Bush
George Washington
Grover Cleveland
Harry Truman
Herbert Hoover
James A. Garfield
James Buchanan
James K Polk
James Madison
James Monroe
Jimmy Carter
John Adams
John F Kennedy
John Quincy Adams
John Tyler
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Van Buren
Millard Fillmore
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Rutherford B. Hayes
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Ulysses S. Grant
Warren G. Harding
William H Harrison
William H. Taft
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
Zachary Taylor

Captain Nemo	Darth Vader
Forest Gump	Gil Grissom
James Bond	Hannibal Lecter
Hiro Nakamura	Mary Poppins
Mohinder Suresh	Peter Petrelli
Sherlock Holmes	Spock
Philip J. Fry