When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Take accountability... Blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships drown.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.