Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go as far as it is possible for any man to go, what have you got to lose? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members. Nothing can justify this example but the innocence of their intentions and ignorance of the value of public discussions. I have no doubt that all their other measures will be good and wise. It is really an assembly of demigods.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.