I cannot live without books.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government
Delay is preferable to error.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers
The government is best which governs least
The glow of one warm thought is worth more to me than money.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.