The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.

Love is so powerful that it can enter through a closed door and steal all of the contents of a precious heart within a moment.

A fearless mind is fearless because, it cannot see anything different from it. Fear of superiority and power comes only when we begin to differentiate.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.