The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.