A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

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.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

I'm proud to be a work in progress.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

The best part about playing a mom is that people hug moms. I get hugs all the time. It really makes hard days a lot easier, and easy days are downright joyous.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.