To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Evil comes from the abuse of free will.

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.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is

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.

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.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

When even one American, who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.