May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

When he talked politics, it was with me, or my sister, pointing a steady and patient finger at us, saying, "I don't care about left or right. It's all nonsense. All I ask of you is this: Be kind. Be decent. And don't be greedy.

Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.

Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.