God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago, " she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!

Hate born from too many tears and too little Love

There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last cigarette that you've already had.

As I've grown as a person and gotten to know myself more - the question of how someone becomes who they become has gotten really interesting to me.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

It isn't what you leave your children but how you leave them.

He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.