Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
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This is the thing that I was born to do.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.
Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.
You don't have to be big or well known to be great.
America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
