The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.

I have no other view than to promote the public good and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did why in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Of all that is good sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

The virtues like the Muses are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God not from government.

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want truly in fulfillment without God.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility honestly because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.