“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

We never repent of having eat too little.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

I don’t care what you play, where you’re from, who you produce. It depends on what you’re doing when you’re with me. That’s what counts. I don’t pre-judge anything or anybody.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

The future of Japan’s economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Vote like our future depends on it. Because it does.