All I have learned, I learned from books.

Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.