Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

No one has a right to hoard things which he cannot use.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.