Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.