Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Times change, and we change with them.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn’t that they keep lying to you

We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

You become an artist to upset your family.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.