Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.

Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.