There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

The health you enjoy is largely your choice

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.