Jefferson Davis Quotes

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

There is more power in unity than division.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

Brothers, we must be one as the English are, or we shall soon all be destroyed.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

I believe in our power, in our power which will grow, and if it will grow agreement will come.

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

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.

I can't do everything alone. I need all Filipinos to unify.

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.