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 guess I am not naturally energetic. I like to sit around and talk.

Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one.