My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.
You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.
Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.