Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

Above all, tell the truth.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Humans could be termed as biomasses when they don’t fully put into use their human qualifications.

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.