While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

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.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

In darkness, don’t cry, wait for the star to appear.

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.