“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

It wouldn’t be me if I didn’t get a little nasty.

Style is a display of character. It’s also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.

The real Da’wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.