Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Love with your soul. Hear your soul speaking, it will always be your guiding light.

One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

I started singing because I come from Wales

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

Americans are a nation of immigrants.