The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean healthy wholesome environment for our people.

Government is by its very nature a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration specifically is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

When man lives under government he is fallen his worth is gone and his nature tarnished.