People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.
But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.