1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

So don’t get cynical. Cynicism didn’t put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE...

Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.