A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.