I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.