It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.