Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.