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

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

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.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.