I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

There's never an end for the sea.

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Your voice is strongest when you remain firm, when you are not moved by your circumstance. For we must not permit others to define who we are or what we stand for.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.