The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

I would live forever if I could, but not like this.

Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.