Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
I actually don't have a bad hairline.
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
War is a contagion.
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.
To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.