At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. 

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. 

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. 

We are so very 'umble.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.  

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.