We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
Ronald Reagan

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Vince Lombardi

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.
George Carlin

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
John Lennon