...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.