“Would to God that I did stand on the same ground with every other man! This is the first time that I have been permitted to enjoy the rights of a citizen.”

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

I am the only thing in my life I can control. I am immitable, I am an original.

Let the Judge take care to find a seat for himself.

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Slander has slain more than the sword.

When a man takes time to consider whether he will do a good or civil action, be assured he will never do it. The baser feelings, the calculations of interest and timidity, always prevail.

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

I feel like any other Brazilian citizen, I have a lot of happiness in me. I thank God for showing me the path to follow.

When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.