Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.