“When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.”

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

You don’t have to explain something you never said.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

The final solution for unemployment is work.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; ‘Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.

What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They’re old. Old people don’t get healthy. They die.