- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
- “When you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
- “Never, never, never give up.”
- “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”
- “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
- “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
- “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
- “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”