We cannot escape history.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.