"Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty."

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."

"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."

"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."

"Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."

"To dream is to realize that character is forged in the fires of discipline."