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

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

This nation under God