If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.

Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there.