You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.