Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

Reach what you cannot

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?