"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."

"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

"He who knows best knows how little he knows."

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

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

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."

"Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time."

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."