Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

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.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

It's your money. You paid for it.

I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.