When you get in debt you become a slave.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Focus on what you can do right now, not what you can't do right now

​The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves.

For me, writing was the only way out.

Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true