The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.

I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.' 'Simon. My name is Simon.

Encouragement is oxygen for the soul

I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.