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

In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.