"You know every Napoleon has his Waterloo. I'm like Napoleon. I'm at my Waterloo, and I'm on my knees."

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"The greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

"It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."