No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

We must patiently endure the times.

No action is safe from meaning.

I've changed so much. Look at me! I'm eating scones on a bed with a pirate!

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.