The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.
Can’t wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it’s taking to VOTE.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
In the beginning, all the world was America.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Never take counsel of your fears.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
I think Americans are very patriotic.