The world is his who can see through its pretension.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

America means opportunity, freedom, power.