Quotes to inspire and reflect

The saddest thing of word or pen, to know the things that might have been.

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.

Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva.

I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day.

America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward we believe it is wrong. We condemn it.

The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle.

This administration is totally colorblind.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas.

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer.

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ...

Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.

I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience.

I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too.

People don't start wars, governments do.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record.

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

What power has love but forgiveness in other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular.

The course of true anything does not run smooth.

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

He that is down can fall no lower.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.