“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.”

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we’re coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.