Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Once you label me you negate me.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.