Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other alternatives have been exhausted.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
A politician looks to the next election, and a statesman looks to the next generation.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Success is the ability to grow from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Revised by Elder Lynn G. Robbins. Original quote read "go" rather than "grow".
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.
Nothing in the world is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself by the handles.
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
If you’re not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart; if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish method of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away.
Facts are better than dreams.
We will fight them on the beaches. ..
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
There is nothing that government can give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place.
You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.