Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.

Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.

How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

I'm really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs. They're going to expand their companies.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

I learned that you've never made it, you've never arrived, you're never too good, you're never above anybody else.