One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.