Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

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.

Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

A lot of people fail to prosper because they are too busy dreaming in their sleep than chasing their dreams in life.

It was impossible to convince someone to live for his own sake. But he often thought it would be a more effective treatment to make people feel more urgently the necessity of living for others.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

I love Veep so I felt like there was a lot I could bring to it.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

I hate to talk about myself.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.