Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

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.

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

Let me show you

and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.