“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.”

“Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.”

“While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.”

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.