Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.