Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.