Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.