The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.