The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

I am a rebel, and I relate to the rebel spirit in Chenault [from the Rhum Dairy].

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

You've got to go after your dreams. If you don't make an effort, nothing's ever going to change.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.