Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

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.

Let the moment be memorable.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.

Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?