Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

A leader leads by example, not by force

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.