The liar’s punishment is not the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
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.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.