Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me