Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.