The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.