Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed