I am nothing, truth is everything.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Too big to cry too young to laugh.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.