Quotes
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
There were people coming in here from New York, California, Chicago, all different places that had publishing companies, trying to buy my songs.
The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.
Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.