Individual liberty is individual power..

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic..

Whoever tells the best story wins..

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading..

...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Kor….

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ag….

Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his s….

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments….

Try and fail,but don't fail to try..

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse..

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the imm….

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by en….

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy..

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel..

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible..

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader..

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a ….

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles o….

Duty is ours, results are God's..

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost..

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God..