There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

I always enjoy animal acts.