Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.