If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

I have what I guess is medically known as a farting problem.

Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.