If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

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.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

The Last Argument of Kings.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.