Guilt is the practice of a false leader.

I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

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.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

Esteem to your higher self.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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?

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.