Robert Frost (1874-1963)
● A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
● A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
●A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
● The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
●A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
● The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
● Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.

Rosalynn Carter
● A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.

Robert Greenleaf
● Good leaders must first become good servants.

Robert Hutchins
● The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and under nourishment.

Robert F. Kennedy
● Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
● Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
● Some see things that are, and ask why. i dream of things that never were and ask why not.

Ralph Nader
● I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Roy E. Moody
● The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.

Ron Nesen
● Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Reinhold Niebuhr
● God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Roger von Oech
● Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
● The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

Robert Orben
● Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Ronald Reagan
● Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
● How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
● No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
● Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
● You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by the way he eats jelly beans.

Ricky Renes
● If you speak elegantly about something you can inform the educated of something they do not know, but the people who know of what you speak may not understand you.

Richard Royster
● Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.