Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I swear by that old expression 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is we still have some good men out there and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason to my liberty and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.