Echoes

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.

Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,—thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.

May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.

We have surmounted all the perils and endured all the agonies of the past. We shall provide against and thus prevail over the dangers and problems of the future, withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well. We have, I believe, within us the life-strength and guiding light by which the tormented world around us may find the harbour of safety, after a storm-beaten voyage.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

It is difficulties that show what men are.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Everything is interaction and reciprocal.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

There is no man in the world free from trouble or anguish, though he were King or Pope.