I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

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.

Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.