America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.