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

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

We tend to get what we expect.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.