It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures – character.
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives – but in what we do for others
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.
You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.
In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
Republicans don’t like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don’t talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man’s blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.
Poor Ike. He’ll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.
Brave men don’t belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn’t need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say ‘on hand…’, then ‘but on the other…
I doubt if there is any problem in the world today – social, political or economic – that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.
Once a decision was made, I didn’t worry about it afterward…
Since childhood at my mother’s knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.
Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don’t believe I am any of them…
some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: “The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.