It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.