“If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”

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 believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

He who never says “no” is no true man.

If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.

When you have a well developed body and you’re confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.