The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I am easily satisfied with the best.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.