A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

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?

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.