"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government..."

"It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance."

"If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil."

"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."

"To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer."

"The shortest answer is the doing the thing."

"When things are at their worst I find something always happens."

"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle."

"Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary."

"Avarice is the sphincter of the heart."

"When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, we'd have peace."

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."