The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.

Don’t worry about the haters… They are just angry because the truth you speak contradicts the lie they live.

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.