Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Ideas control the world.

Right reason is stronger than force.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Suicide is not a remedy.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

I am a poor hater.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

We do not know one promise these men made one pledge they gave one word they spoke but we do know they summed up and perfected by one supreme act the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death and thus resolved all doubts and made.

For love of country they accepted death.

Men cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill its the best possible substitute for it.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

Man can not live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.