It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.