No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
