The States are nations.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Failure comes into our lives not to fail us, but it comes to make us wiser and stronger through the lessons of life.

When I was your age, television was called books.

It's not your perfection that makes you an angel

It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.