None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

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.

Without a song, life is a sorrow.

The Scripture is like a sharp sword.

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

I'd like to go to the Moon.

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

I dare not ask a kiss; I dare not beg a smile; Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has truly blessed me.