I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

There is a big difference between having your heart broken and being the one responsible for a broken heart. I was twelve years old and had already experienced both.

Happiness is not in the absence of challenges but the choice to dwell on infinite hope.

Hope is not a sin, neither is fidelity.

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.