The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

You are always free when you have the ability to think.

Revenge is like a poison in our heart before you now it

When one teaches, two learn.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.