If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know-and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me-has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

I'm on a government watch list. But I'm not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.