Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

There is always room at the top.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.