Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

A modest man, who has much to be modest about.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going.

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.