Duty is ours, results are God's.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster

You already know the difference between being a gracious person versus a rude one.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

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Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.