Quotes of: Kennedys Keyword

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The American Soul: TK

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

A woman's love can be violent. Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to. Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.

Knife of Dreams

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

The Rommel Papers

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

A Rumor Of War

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

The Struggle for Democracy

I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.

The Sandman and the War of Dreams

A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.

The Sandman and the War of Dreams

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.

Mein Kampf

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

As I look back on the time I've spent with him, loving him, learning him, I'm grateful for the moments. Because in the end, it's the moments that make life worth living...

A Moment

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we don’t fix the injustice and confront our lies.

My Country 'Tis of Thee

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.

Matterhorn