Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

I fight on. I fight to win.

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.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.