Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

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