State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

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.

Progress can’t be achieved without investing in and constantly improving yourself.

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

It was hope, dying unsurprised.

We are all the playground of angels and demons.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.