Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

“In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

In very truth he was, the noblest work of God—an honest man.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

If you want to shine like sun, first you want to burn like it.

Think thousand times before taking a decision but – after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousand difficulties.