While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.