First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.

Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street; While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Man proposes, and God disposes.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

By labor fire is got out of stone.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.