You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.