What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.

All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Shake and shake the catsup bottle none will come and then a lot'll.

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know