My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
No public man can be just a little crooked.
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.