I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I think I’ve got wiser.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.