Ronald Reagan on Nuclear Waste
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“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
–Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan on American Change
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“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
–Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill on Fortitude
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“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
–Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan on Moral Courage
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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”
–Ronald Reagan
Conan O’Brien on Success and Failure
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“I’ve had a lot of success. I’ve had a lot of failure. I’ve looked good. I’ve looked bad. I’ve been praised. And I’ve been criticized. But my mistakes have been necessary. I’ve dwelled on my failures today because, as graduates of Harvard, your biggest liability is your need to succeed, your need to always find yourself on the sweet side of the bell curve. Success is a lot like a bright white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you’re desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it.”
–Conan O’Brien
General Douglas MacArthur on Duty, Honor, and Country
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“I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory. Always for them: Duty, Honor, Country. Always their blood, and sweat, and tears, as they saw the way and the light.”
–General Douglas MacArthur
Elbert Hubbard on Life
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“Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive.”
–Elbert Hubbard
Aristotle on Flattery
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“A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.”
–Aristotle
Winston Churchill on Fanatics
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“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
–Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein on Wisdom
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“Before God we are all equally wise — and equally foolish.”
–Albert Einstein
Nathan Hale on Patriotism
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“I only regret that I have but one life to give my country.”
–Nathan Hale
George Patton on Fighting
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“Men, this stuff we hear about America wanting to stay out of the war, not wanting to fight, is a lot of bullshit. Americans love to fight - traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player; the fastest runner; the big league ball players; the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win - all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost, not ever will lose a war, for the very thought of losing is hateful to an American.”
–General George S. Patton
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Freedom
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“And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
Patrick Henry on Liberty
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“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
–Patrick Henry
Ronald Reagan on Government
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“Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
–Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy on Liberty
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“We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
“This much we pledge—and more.”
–John F. Kennedy (Inaugural Address)
Maximus on Honor
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“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”
–Maximus, Gladiator (2000)
G.K. Chesterton on Atheism
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“When a Man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.”
–G.K. Chesterton
Carl Sandburg on the Measure of a Man
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“A tree is best measured when it is down–and so it is with people.”
–Carl Sandburg, Lincoln in the War Years
Ronald Reagan on Freedom
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“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
