Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Doubters do not achieve; sceptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

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

Money will not purchase character or good government.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

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

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Silence can never be misquoted.

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

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.