The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.