Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.