“Not to destroy but to construct”

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?

Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

By better cars on longer credit terms.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship

But a newspaper can always print a retraction.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security.

A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

And if they’re not in existence, if this was yet another fabrication by the president, he needs to come clean about it.