There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.