A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

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.

Your mind is working on your future based on a suggestion. The question is on whose suggestion it's working on: Yours or others?

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

I'm living my dream, everything fell into the right place for me.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.