Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.