A joke is a very serious thing.
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.