An American

“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

Purposeful Leader

“Great leaders are born out of the pursuit of a great purpose.”
--Roy Spence

Free or Equal

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Do Not Fear Death

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
--Mark Twain

Hand Over Freedom

“Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

Any Period

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution, when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Born for a Storm

“I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.”
--Andrew Jackson

Born Free

“We are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
--Andrew Jackson

Light of Science

“The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately.”
--Thomas Jefferson

Evil Taught

“Evil is not born, it is taught.”
--Jedi Proverb

Youthful

“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”
--Karl Lagerfeld

Mediocrity

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
--Joseph Heller

Born To Succeed

“Men are born to succeed, not fail.”
--Henry David Thoreau

Grow Wings

“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
--Coco Chanel

Racial Equanimity

“The day that it does not matter in your heart of hearts what color you were born is when we have truly achieved racial equality.”
--Chip Thomson

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Important Days

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
--Mark Twain

Crawl Through Life

“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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Need for Affection

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
--Audrey Hepburn

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Stay Stupid

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
--Benjamin Franklin

Originality

“You were born an original. Don't die a copy.”
--John Mason

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