“You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.”

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

The object of love is to serve, not to win.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

It’s the blood of the ancients that runs through the veins.

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.