USA Quotes
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Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder go when it dies?
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else.
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We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.
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Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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The duties of an officer are the safety, honor, and welfare of your country first; the honor, welfare, and comfort of the men in your command second; and the officer's own ease, comfort, and safety last.
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I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.