There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.