I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.