The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.