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.

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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

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

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