Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

Who can see twenty-five years into the future?” she had asked. “Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything.

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Men feared witches and burned women.

There are no limits on how much the heart can love, the mind can imagine, or the human being can achieve.

More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race.