The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

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.

That is her style of beauty.

You may think just a windowBut you overtook my soul.You are not just a whisper, You are louder than my soul. (from poem Chimera)

Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.

Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.