In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of the blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.
True life is lived with tiny changes occur.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.