Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
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.
I think that five, 10, 50 years down the road, we'll be honoring President Barack Obama for ending two wars, stopping the economic hemorrhage and, yes, reducing the number of uninsured. And the polls won't matter.
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.
I am rather inclined to silence.
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.
Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.
The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
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.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.