No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.