Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

The word of God is an immense wealth.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.