“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Turn over a new leaf.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

Be kind to others for no reason be the sun in their rainy season.

There is freedom in loneliness. A kind of freedom that hurts. The kind you wish you never had.

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won’t do it unless my coaches tell me I’ve just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all the time. I am so afraid that the world will not be kind to my children.

That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone.

I guess my style’s a little edgy but comfortable. I like being comfortable, for sure, and kind of casual.

It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I’m gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.