Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

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.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

He has the qualities of a rock.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

Battle scars just remind us that we survived.

We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.