Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

I am the breeze. I drift and I wander. I meet people and i touch their hearts. but people don't stay with me. They leave me. And I keep on drifting and keep on wandering. That's my life.

One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years-I didn't want to interrupt her.

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

Shun death, is my advice.