A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Achievement has no color

If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop