Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

It’s an evil fate to fall into the hands of a persecutor who was once persecuted.

Money isn't everything, but it's right up there with oxygen.

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back