If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is

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.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.