Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities

One good friend is better than a thousand questionable ones.

If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be.