Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
There never Was a Good War or a Bad Peace.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.