Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
~Thomas Jefferson
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
~George Washington
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
~Benjamin Franklin
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will
~Alexander Hamilton
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
~John Adams
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.