After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

Don't get mad, get even.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.