A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.