America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.
We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.