I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

The only new thing is history we don't know.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Study men, not historians.

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The absence of war is not peace.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.