No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.
I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.
