Responsibility cannot be shared.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Gentlemen, let's go row!

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.