John McCain

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

But we’re at a place in our political history when passing legislation through the House with bipartisan support is considered by some folks a greater evil than the problem it’s intended to solve.

We have to fight. We have to fight against propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories. We have to fight isolationism, protectionism, and nativism. We have to defeat those who would worsen our divisions. We have to remind our sons and daughters that we became the most powerful nation on Earth by tearing down walls, not building them.

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

That man is idle who can do something better.

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.