Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.