If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

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

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.