Quotes to inspire and reflect

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory … In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.

The work, my friend, is peace. More than an end of this war—an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and

We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity.

I have seen war … I hate war.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle,

Ce qui n’est pas clair n’est pas français.

A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles,

A l’aurore, armés d’une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides villes.

Ô saisons, ô châteaux!

… Je me suis baigné dans le Poème

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

So leben wir und nehmen immer Abschied.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

I’m world famous, Dr Parks said, all over Canada.

Memory says: Want to do right? Don’t count on me.

Rent is that portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

The thing I came for:

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’

An evil empire.

You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

I paid for this microphone.

President Carter had described a proposal for a national health insurance plan

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

C’est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée.

Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit.

I am going to seek a great perhaps … Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out.

She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she’s a woman.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Fay ce que vouldras.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

And suddenly the memory revealed itself.