“No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.”
“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.”
“Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.”
“To the generations of Americans raised since World War 2, the identities of criminals such as Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, "Ma" Barker, John Dillenger, and Clyde Barrow are no more real than are Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones. After decades spent in the washing machine of popular culture, their stories have been bled of all reality, to an extent that few Americans today know who these people actually were, much less that they all rose to national prominence at the same time. They were real.”
“It is to be lamented that the interested and designing have availed themselves so successfully of the present crisis, and under the specious pretence of having discovered a panacea for all the ills of the people, they are about establishing a system of government, that will prove more destructive to them than the wooden horse filled with soldiers did in ancient times to the city of Troy. This horse was introduced by their hostile enemy the Grecians, by a prostitution of the sacred rites of their religion; in like manner, my fellow citizens, are aspiring despots amongyourselves prostituting the name of a Washington to cloak their designs upon your liberties.”
“There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.”
“The world is a far greater place than I ever imagined. And it is yours.”