I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror.
We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones. "