You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

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

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.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

If the government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

There are no favourites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the colour of his skin.