Achievement has no color
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.