Freedom Award Quotes

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

Great hopes make great men.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Today, as some of us weep for what could have been, we look to the future with faith that on another morning joy will surely come.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

One of the big takeaways from Iraq was that you have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. We were able to go to the edge of the abyss without losing hope.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?' 'So the minstrels say,' said Éomer. 'Then let us defend it, and hope!' said Aragorn.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

Nothing can compare with the untiring activity of that leader. His fearlessness and his talents entitle him to his place at the head of the revolution and of the war; but he possesses as well, from his noble Spanish strain and his education, also Spanish, qualities of elegance and generosity which elevate him far above all who surround him. He is the revolution...Bolivar is an indominatable soul whom a single victory of the smallest nature is enough to make master of five hundred leagues of territory.