Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.