The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.