A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Respect your voice. Be a voice for those who do not have a voice.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.