You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.