“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.” -Robert F. Kennedy
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” -Robert F. Kennedy
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” -Robert F. Kennedy
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.” -Robert F. Kennedy
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” -Ronald Reagan
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” -Ronald Reagan
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” -Ronald Reagan
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” -Ronald Reagan
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!” -Ronald Reagan
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” -Ronald Reagan
“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.” -Ronald Reagan
“Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.” -Ronald Reagan
“Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.” -Ronald Reagan
“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.” -Ronald Reagan
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” -Thomas Jefferson
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” -John F. Kennedy
“Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” -John F. Kennedy
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” -John F. Kennedy
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” -John F. Kennedy
“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” -John F. Kennedy
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” -John F. Kennedy
“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” -John F. Kennedy
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.” -John F. Kennedy
“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” -John F. Kennedy