You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.