The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Fasten your belts and sharpen your arrows, we're going for a hunt! I'm single again!

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

We appreciate yesterday, but we're looking for a better tomorrow.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

Nobody has the intention of building a wall