The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Thought is free.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Moonlight is sculpture.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Nothing is black or white.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Freedom lies in being bold.