You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.
I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
That's exactly how I felt. So getting to suddenly know this young [princess] Margaret, who had this extraordinary life - it was sad and tragic and difficult and sort of astonishing and getting to know her young self was amazing because it completely defied all my expectations.
You [ the American President] can print more money, you just print and pay. I mean, it's a bad option, but you can do it.