“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.”

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.

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.

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.

And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!

If we could see ourselves in earth and the earth in ourselves, we could see how we cannot survive without it.

When the earth meets the sky, it becomes the sky, and the sky becomes even more infinite.

I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.