You can't legislate stupidity.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

I love my country, not my government.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.