That which costs little is less valued.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
