Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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.

Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo