"America cultivates best what Germany brought forth...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.”

“Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.”

“Fiction or fable allures to instruction.”

“Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.”

“I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.”

“It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.”

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”

“Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.”

“The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi.”