“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

Be a great speaker, become a leader.

We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Great companies are built on great products.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Great companies are built on great products.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.