"I cannot help reflecting that if my..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm”

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.”

“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”

“My mother raised me, and then freed me.”

“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.”

“A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.”

“And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts - the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant - will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.”