Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

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.

Moral stories are always imaginary, but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!

There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.