Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I think I stand where that man stands.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.