Sourced and curated.

1998

★ 7.1

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and didn't inhale.

First Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1993

★ 7.1

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

1992

★ 7.0

Speech

Douglas MacArthur

1951

★ 6.1

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur

1952

★ 6.1

The era of big government is over.

It's in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

1996 State of the Union Address · 1996

★ 5.5

Poem

Phenomenal Woman · 1978

★ 5.5

I feel your pain.

I fell into a burnin' ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher.

1992

★ 5.5

Song · Country music

Johnny Cash

Ring of Fire · 1963

★ 5.4

The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the arrogance of power, the tendency of great nations to equate power with virtue and major responsibilities with a universal mission.

J. William Fulbright

The Arrogance of Power · 1966

★ 5.1

Song · Country music

It was a real slow walk in a real sad rain.

Johnny Cash

Drive On · 1994

★ 4.6

Autobiography and memoir

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings · 1969

★ 4.0

Poem

Still I Rise · 1978

★ 3.9

America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 3.9

Magazine

The taste of love is sweet when hearts like ours meet.

2013

★ 3.9

Song · Country music

Johnny Cash

Ring of Fire · 1963

★ 3.8

Poem

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The American people have spoken-but it's going to take a little while to determine exactly what they said.

1993

★ 3.8

They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.

2000

★ 3.7

The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

Remarks at the U.S. National Cemetery, June 6, 1944 · 1994

★ 3.6

Speech

Douglas MacArthur

1940

★ 3.5

Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the cold war assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.

First Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1993

★ 2.0

Our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands. Across the world we see them embraced, and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands are with those on every continent who are building democracy and freedom. Their cause is America's cause.

First Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1993

★ 2.0

What a century it has been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power, saved the world from tyranny in two World Wars and a long Cold War, and time and again reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for the blessings of liberty.

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 2.0

At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the information age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect Union.

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 2.0

Government is not the problem, and Government is not the solution. We—the American people—we are the solution. Our Founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day.

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 2.0

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices... These obsessions cripple both those who hate and of course those who are hated, robbing both of what they might become. We cannot, we will not, succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere. We shall overcome them.

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 2.0

We need a new Government for a new century, humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves... The preeminent mission of our new Government is to give all Americans an opportunity, not a guarantee but a real opportunity, to build better lives.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 2.0

Newspaper

J. William Fulbright

Observer · 1958

★ 1.8

Interview

Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, "You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth."

1986

★ 1.3

Interview · Magazine