America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.