This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

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.
Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry Ford

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Robert A. Heinlein

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
James Madison

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Ron White

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
John Stuart Mill