A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.

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.

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

I never fear death... for me it's only a new beginning.

We stand not as victims, but rather to bear witness to the gender injustices present in our lives and in our world as a whole.

And I'm no quitter, but I'm tired of fighting.

I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.