To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.