No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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 worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Action expresses priorities.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Quitting is leading too.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.