Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?

And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.

If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.

The contact of two epidermises.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.