Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say ‘on hand... ’, then ’but on the other...
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.
The absence of war is not peace.
To me party platforms are contracts with the people.
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.
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 sure is the ruination of many a good man.
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he’d taken a poll in Egypt?
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The dictators of the world say that if you tell a lie often enough, why, people will believe it. Well, if you tell the truth often enough, they’ll believe it and go along with you.
Poor Ike. He’ll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.
Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.
You can’t have anything worthwhile without difficulties.
Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it’s over, it isn’t so bad.
I once described Washington as a doer surrounded by thinkers. He knew how to make the thinkers work for him, and only a truly superb politician and leader is able to do that.
My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it.
But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we forge too deeply into the planet there will be a reckoning- who knows?
You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.
Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made.
I would rather be a Medal of Honor recipient then the President of the United States!