Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

When a person’s debt increases a lot, at first he will feel he wants to pay it all back, later he will think, ‘Why give back?’ That spoils from within. We should not sign from within.

Read the Scripture to renew your mind.Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit

If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live the best lives possible - knowing that there is a higher being who loves us and will never leave us.

The nature of life is to grow.

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.