Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

States are not moral agents.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Justice is truth in action.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.