Quotes to inspire and reflect

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

How God ever brings like to like.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Certainly, in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you.

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community.

It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ...

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience.

I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

I let the American people down.

I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me.

Well, I'm not a crook.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

When I retire, I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes.

A man is not finished when he's defeated he's finished when he quits.

I have impeached myself by resigning.