"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."
"The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity."
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."
"No sane man will dance."
"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."
"Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases."
"Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter-hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred."
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
"It is a misfortune for a woman never to be loved, but it is a humiliation to be loved no more."
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
"I believe...that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."
"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness."
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others."
"I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building)"
"Mankind has grown strong in external struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace."
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
"It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty, in that case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."
"The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match."
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
"Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited."
"The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs."
"To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering."
"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
"In giving you these tapes, blemishes and all, I am placing my trust in the basic fairness of the American people."
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."
"You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. (When asked how he would choose to die)"
"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
"The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish."
"The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
"Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing."
"The time is always right to do what is right."
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
"The indulgence in grief is a blunder."
"To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society."
"It is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand."
"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours."