Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.