Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. |
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. |
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. |
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. |
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. |
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. |
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. |
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. |
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. |
Never spend your money before you have earned it. |