If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

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.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Treat people like family because they are.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

My favorite memory is my five years with the Nuggets. From my first day to my last day is a great memory. There wasn't a year that I was a Nugget that I didn't think we succeeded.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.