Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

Have faith in your own thoughts.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises.

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

I love pre-code movies. Some of my favorites are movies with Warren William and there is an MGM film called "Skyscraper Souls" which is the best Warner Brothers movie that MGM ever made.

The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.