We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.