I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

When my soul fainted within me ... my prayer came in unto thee.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Personally, I like films that make me a little bit uncomfortable because I think you're uncomfortable when something is real.

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

History - the devil's scripture

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.