59 quotes found
“It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, ...”
“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.”
“Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.”
“Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in...”
“I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I...”
“Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.”
“We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.”
“... and it broke my heart in so many pieces I wondered if it would ever be whole again.”
“You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.”
“Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or you? Who will protect and teach your children to seek truth? A textbook commi...”
“When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?”
“You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore”
“Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.”
“In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.”
“Government should not be involved in marriage at all, I believe. There’s no reason for it. I don’t get the value of my marriage government, I get it from God. I want the government out of my life. ...”
“If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.”
“Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.”