In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.