Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
I am charged with violating pledges which I never gave; and because I execute what I believe to be the law, with usurping powers not conferred by law; and above all, with using the powers conferred upon the President by the Constitution, from corrupt motives and for unwarrantable ends.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
Facts are stubborn things.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.