If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Don't fight forces, use them.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.