It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

he who will not economize will agonize

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.