Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.