Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.