Words matter. These are the best Paul Tsongas Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It was a myth that’s often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don’t worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
That’s a good question. Let me try to evade you.
I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time – the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.
Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
This land, this water, this air, this planet – this is our legacy to our young.
My father’s generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
I am an American. I love this country.
Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
