All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Understanding leads to peace.

Live simply so others may simply live

Darkness, no matter how powerful it may seem, can be driven back by the tiniest spark.

There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

I’ve made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

Americans, unknowingly, live part of every day in the house that Satch built.

Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.