The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

Labor is the true standard of value.