Women are books, and men the readers be.
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Security without liberty is called prison.
In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. Where liberty dwells there is my country.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Lost time is never found again.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Well done is better than well said.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
God helps those who help themselves.
Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Time is money.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
