When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

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

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.