"I want to sleep for eternity with..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.”

“There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.”

“I looked into the vast dome of blue emptiness that stretched out above me in all directions and the illusion was still there, the size and speed, and what information they were sending to mother earth.”

“One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.”

“My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?”

“Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.”

“But what is your duty? What the day demands.[Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]”

“Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.”

“No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.”