In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Never give in and never give up.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.