Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.

I'm falling into disrepair

Leaders who nurture followers to be leaders, keep leading even when they retire, and they keep winning the admiration of leading leaders

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.