Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
