Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.