Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

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.

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.