Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.

In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.