Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.

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.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.