Perilous Quotes

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places, where terrorists seek to impose a medieval dark age. As we learned so brutally and so personally, we do face a new threat. But we also face a renewed choice - between isolation in a perilous world, which I believe is impossible in any event, and engagement to shape a safer world which is the urgent imperative of our time.