“The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.”

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Do the thing and the power will come.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

We simply cannot re-elect a president who does not believe in the rule of law and our constitution.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.