When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

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.

So please, just let me be egocentric and ask you to stay.

Time change - Moments don't.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.

We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian