You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.