I had faith in Israel before it was established I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
My parents shared not only an improbable love they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name Barack or blessed believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations yes but above all with blazing serene hope.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
To one who has faith no explanation is necessary. To one without faith no explanation is possible.
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons and talents as materials you can mine assay and fabricate for profit and defense.
Something is wanting and something must be done or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe in retrospective that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security they have kind of got that principle backwards.
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District and for many across the nation.
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so characterized by hesitation and indecision will harm the national interest.
War except in self-defense is a failure of moral imagination.
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
Americans who make more of marrying for love than any other people also break up more of their marriages but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
The higher the artist the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools the greater the imagination. The greater the will the greater the secret failure.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.