A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.