Whoever tells the best story wins.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate. I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however.

I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.