The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

Public opinion in this country is everything.