“The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.”

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Life is one darn thing after another.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

New pain is an old pain wrapped in a new story.

Old ways won’t open new doors.

Yeah lets grow old together, But promise me we’ll always have youth in our bones.

She is the old school hard love, your modern brittle love can’t afford to carry.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

I had shed my old skin so I could make room to grow into myself again.

She is an old soul, with young eyes. An euphoric heart and a beautiful mind.

No matter how astray the becoming might be, I’ll never search for the old in me.