About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.

The absence of war is not peace.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.