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The Constitution defines the functions and powers of the executive as clearly as those of either of the other two departments of the Government, and he must answer for the just exercise of the discretion it permits and the performance of the duties it imposes.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.

What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.

The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.

This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as it were to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.

a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him

he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack

if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.

It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

Your life will never be a straight path.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.