You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of...

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the...

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.