Richard Burr Quotes

If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.

We have been partners in nation-building and take our role in building the nation very proudly.

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

In order to land a punch, you need to bring your fingers together into a fist. We need to join all of our forces together. That is the only way that we can win.

No man is so great as mankind.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

Then join in hand, brave Americans all. By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

It’s really important that civic rituals like the Marathon and other large civic gatherings go on—that we not surrender our public occasions to terror.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team.