You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.