Anxiety beclouds the future.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

I think I stand where that man stands.

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?