“We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.”

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.

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.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.

Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.

The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity