You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free;...

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon...

It doesn’t do good to open doors for someone who doesn’t have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro...

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

I went to Bali for two months and met my wife, and that’s how the story started… We had a very simple beginning, selling art on the street.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to...

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Never take counsel of your fears.

War settles nothing.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion… in private self-defense.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for “the mess we’re in.”

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.