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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
Sep 10, 2025
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?
Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in both senses) of instant reaction; so divisive, it makes Brexit, the Labour leadership and the US Presidential election seem lesser ruptures.
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
He serves his party best who serves the country best.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Donald Trumps' senior advisor said on CNN that the US Presidential election was the ultimate reality TV show! Appeal to those you want to reach!
we are the ones we have been waiting for
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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