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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. AUTHOR
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. AUTHOR
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. AUTHOR
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. AUTHOR
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. AUTHOR
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.AUTHOR
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. AUTHOR
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it. AUTHOR
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. AUTHOR
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. AUTHOR
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.AUTHOR
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. AUTHOR
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. AUTHOR
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own. AUTHOR
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. AUTHOR
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government AUTHOR
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.AUTHOR
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad. AUTHOR
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made AUTHOR
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. AUTHOR
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. AUTHOR
All I know is I'm not a Marxist. AUTHOR
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. AUTHOR
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. AUTHOR
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty AUTHOR
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. AUTHOR
Get mad, then get over it.AUTHOR
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. AUTHOR
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. AUTHOR
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. AUTHOR
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. AUTHOR

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. AUTHOR
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. AUTHOR
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. AUTHOR
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. AUTHOR
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. AUTHOR
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. AUTHOR
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. AUTHOR
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person AUTHOR
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. AUTHOR
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. AUTHOR
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it. AUTHOR
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. AUTHOR
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. AUTHOR
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. AUTHOR
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. AUTHOR
All men are equal before fish. AUTHOR
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. AUTHOR
His ignorance is encyclopedic. AUTHOR
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. AUTHOR
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. AUTHOR
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. AUTHOR
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. AUTHOR
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. AUTHOR
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. AUTHOR
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. AUTHOR
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. AUTHOR
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. AUTHOR
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. AUTHOR

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. AUTHOR
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. AUTHOR
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. AUTHOR
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. AUTHOR
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. AUTHOR
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. AUTHOR
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. AUTHOR
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. AUTHOR
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. AUTHOR
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. AUTHOR
We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. AUTHOR
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. AUTHOR
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. AUTHOR
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. AUTHOR
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.AUTHOR
A bore is simply a nonentity who resents his humble lot in life, and seeks satisfaction for his wounded ego by forcing himself on his betters. AUTHOR
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. AUTHOR
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. AUTHOR
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart. AUTHOR
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. AUTHOR
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. AUTHOR
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards (our goal). AUTHOR
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. AUTHOR
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil AUTHOR
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. AUTHOR
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune AUTHOR
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. AUTHOR
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information AUTHOR
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word. AUTHOR

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. AUTHOR
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. AUTHOR
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. AUTHOR
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. AUTHOR
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war. AUTHOR
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater. AUTHOR
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. AUTHOR
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. AUTHOR
A hungry man is not a free man. AUTHOR
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. AUTHOR
"I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary." AUTHOR
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. AUTHOR
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. AUTHOR
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. AUTHOR
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. AUTHOR
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production. AUTHOR
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.AUTHOR
Blood alone moves the wheels of history. AUTHOR
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.AUTHOR
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.AUTHOR
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. AUTHOR
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom AUTHOR
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. AUTHOR
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. AUTHOR
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurityAUTHOR
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. AUTHOR
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. AUTHOR
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. AUTHOR
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. AUTHOR
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. AUTHOR

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. AUTHOR
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. AUTHOR
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. AUTHOR
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. AUTHOR
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. AUTHOR
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. AUTHOR
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself AUTHOR
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. AUTHOR
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those. AUTHOR
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. AUTHOR
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. AUTHOR
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. AUTHOR
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age AUTHOR
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. AUTHOR
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage AUTHOR
A true friend stabs you in the front. AUTHOR
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. AUTHOR
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. AUTHOR
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. AUTHOR
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. AUTHOR
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity AUTHOR
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. AUTHOR
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. AUTHOR
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. AUTHOR
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. AUTHOR
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. AUTHOR
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. AUTHOR
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. AUTHOR
I am not a crook AUTHOR
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. AUTHOR
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. AUTHOR

I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work. AUTHOR
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. AUTHOR
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. AUTHOR
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. AUTHOR
I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education. AUTHOR
You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces. AUTHOR
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. AUTHOR
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. AUTHOR
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. AUTHOR
Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it. AUTHOR
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. AUTHOR
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. AUTHOR
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. AUTHOR
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. AUTHOR
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage AUTHOR
A true friend stabs you in the front. AUTHOR
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. AUTHOR
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen AUTHOR
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! AUTHOR
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. AUTHOR
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. AUTHOR
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. AUTHOR
Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press. AUTHOR
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. AUTHOR
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. AUTHOR
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. AUTHOR
If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule. AUTHOR
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. AUTHOR
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. AUTHOR
Even a paranoid has some real enemies. AUTHOR

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. AUTHOR
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility AUTHOR
Be quick to learn and wise to know. AUTHOR
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. AUTHOR
We will frighten no Russians by threatening our Allies. AUTHOR
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you." AUTHOR
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. AUTHOR
Be not simply good - be good for something. AUTHOR
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. AUTHOR
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. AUTHOR
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. AUTHOR
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. AUTHOR
"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't" AUTHOR
A great mind becomes a great fortune. AUTHOR
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. AUTHOR
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon AUTHOR
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. AUTHOR
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. AUTHOR
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. AUTHOR
Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. AUTHOR
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. AUTHOR
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. AUTHOR
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. AUTHOR
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. AUTHOR
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. AUTHOR
�When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance� AUTHOR
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. AUTHOR
Fear makes us feel our humanity. AUTHOR
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. AUTHOR
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. AUTHOR
People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead." AUTHOR

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. AUTHOR
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. AUTHOR
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. AUTHOR
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. AUTHOR
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. AUTHOR
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. AUTHOR
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. AUTHOR
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. AUTHOR
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. AUTHOR
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. AUTHOR
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. AUTHOR
National honor is the national property of the highest value AUTHOR
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. AUTHOR
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. AUTHOR
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. AUTHOR
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. AUTHOR
From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. AUTHOR
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. AUTHOR
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. AUTHOR
Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag. AUTHOR
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. AUTHOR
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. AUTHOR
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish AUTHOR
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. AUTHOR
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. AUTHOR
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. AUTHOR
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. AUTHOR
"...the kind of calm which comes when one has done the best one can." AUTHOR
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. AUTHOR
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. AUTHOR
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. AUTHOR

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. AUTHOR
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. AUTHOR
"Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter. AUTHOR
Religion is the opium of the masses. AUTHOR
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. AUTHOR
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department AUTHOR
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. AUTHOR
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. AUTHOR
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. AUTHOR
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? AUTHOR
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. AUTHOR
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. AUTHOR
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. AUTHOR
"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?" AUTHOR
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. AUTHOR
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. AUTHOR
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. AUTHOR
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. AUTHOR
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. AUTHOR
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. AUTHOR
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. AUTHOR
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. AUTHOR
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. AUTHOR
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. AUTHOR
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. AUTHOR
Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished. AUTHOR
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims AUTHOR
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. AUTHOR
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. AUTHOR
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. AUTHOR

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. AUTHOR
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. AUTHOR
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. AUTHOR
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. AUTHOR
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. AUTHOR
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. AUTHOR
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. AUTHOR
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. AUTHOR
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. AUTHOR
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. AUTHOR
Forever is composed of nows. AUTHOR
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. AUTHOR
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. AUTHOR
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. AUTHOR
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. AUTHOR
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace." AUTHOR
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. AUTHOR
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. AUTHOR
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. AUTHOR
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. AUTHOR
I played by the rules of politics as I found them. AUTHOR
All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. AUTHOR
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. AUTHOR
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. AUTHOR
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting AUTHOR
Adventure is not outside man; it is within AUTHOR
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. AUTHOR
I want unity but above everything else, I want a party that will fight for the things we know to be right at home and abroad. AUTHOR
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. AUTHOR
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. AUTHOR
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. AUTHOR

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. AUTHOR
I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis. AUTHOR
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. AUTHOR
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. AUTHOR
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. AUTHOR
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. AUTHOR
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. AUTHOR
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. AUTHOR
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. AUTHOR
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. AUTHOR
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. AUTHOR
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me. AUTHOR
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. AUTHOR
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. AUTHOR
Fortune befriends the bold. AUTHOR
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. AUTHOR
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. AUTHOR
History is a vast early warning system. AUTHOR
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. AUTHOR
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. AUTHOR
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. AUTHOR
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. AUTHOR
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. AUTHOR
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. AUTHOR
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. AUTHOR
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. AUTHOR
How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. AUTHOR
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. AUTHOR
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. AUTHOR
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. AUTHOR

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. AUTHOR
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. AUTHOR
A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman. AUTHOR
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. AUTHOR
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. AUTHOR
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. AUTHOR
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. AUTHOR
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. AUTHOR
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. AUTHOR
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. AUTHOR
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. AUTHOR
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. AUTHOR
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. AUTHOR
The buck stops hereAUTHOR
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them. AUTHOR
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself. AUTHOR
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. AUTHOR
It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment. AUTHOR
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. AUTHOR
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. AUTHOR
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. AUTHOR
Honor lies in honest toil. AUTHOR
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking. AUTHOR
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on Earth, good will to men! AUTHOR
�Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.� AUTHOR
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. AUTHOR
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. AUTHOR
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. AUTHOR
I decline to accept the end of man. AUTHOR
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. AUTHOR
�New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.� AUTHOR