[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

For business and life, if you are not experiencing growth, you’re possibly dying.

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Learn what you are and be such.

We do not want to make Scout training too soft.

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.