The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

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.

It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

We make it all up, even that we don't.

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.