Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state.

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.

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.

Chase your dreams, even if you trip.

The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.