The very first things that I did even in theater were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and...
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take...
Ignorance is preferable to error and he is less remote from the truth who...
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of...
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform...
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will...
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in...
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in...
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices a rottenness begins in his...
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects and so will...
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise...
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the...
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and...
Money not morality is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and...
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which...
As our enemies have found we can reason like men so now let us show them we...
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house for...
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge never fearing to follow truth and...
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with...
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
The moment a person forms a theory his imagination sees in every object only...
My theory has always been that if we are to dream the flatteries of hope...
