How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.