If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.