Times change, and we change with them.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.

If you must record some greatness in your account before you leave this earth, you must value time and understand the importance of time conversion.

Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,   One task more declined, one more footpath untrod, One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels,   One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.