To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

History is written by the victors.

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.