"Don't shortchange the future, because of fear..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.”

“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us”

“Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.”

“Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.”

“You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.”

“I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.”

“Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.”

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”