“I cannot live without books.”

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.

I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

No people can be both ignorant and free.

No people can be both ignorant and free.

Until I went to rehab, I didn’t understand what it did.

I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.

Get addicted to your happiness, not your pain.

I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.