My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

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.

To be honorable, you have to make sacrifices for others.

Man must be free or he will not survive.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.