I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
