You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.