Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

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

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.