No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

Your rights end where my nose begins.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.