The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The cure is, is worse than the disease.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

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.

This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.

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

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.

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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 strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.