Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Quitting is leading too.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.