Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

He who fears the sun will not become chief.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.