Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.

I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time