Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them.

Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

People expect what they expect.. They never realize the possibility of surprise beyond expectations..!

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.