The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned stop conning yourself.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot therefore maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

If the opposition disarms well and good. If it refuses to disarm we shall disarm it ourselves.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say and always a clever thing to say.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say 'We did it ourselves.'

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

If there's any message to my work it is ultimately that it's OK to be different that it's good to be different that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different behaves different talks different is a different color.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do love finds us every time.

Assuredly Loving Souls you should go to God with all humility and respect humbling yourselves in His presence especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

We hand folks over to God's mercy and show none ourselves.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy but that we should make ourselves happy.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

All men are by nature equal made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another.

God and Nature first made us what we are and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.