"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
"With freedom we can actually do more for the lives of people than they can do with their system."—speaking about Russia in 1957.