The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Tomorrow life is too late: live today.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.