Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.