We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

All men are equal before fish.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

What was once thought can never be unthought.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.