The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

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.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Common sense is not so common.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.