The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

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.

It's time for the human race to start dwelling on their similarities instead of focusing on their differences with one another.

Be selective in your battles...

I may never fly—in the bird sort of way. But I do have wings.

Never be afraid to do what's right. If no one ever says anything, nothing ever changes.

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.