Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.