Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.

If you cross a pickle with a female deer...You get a dill-doe!

Rise up this mornin', Smile with the risin' sun.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.