A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

The way to resumption is to resume.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

All men are born equally free.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

With every sunrise our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get new meaning

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.