I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

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.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.