Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
