The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

Real prosperity is … Having the financial abundance to obey God's will whenever He wants you to, and however he wants you to.

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.