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

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

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

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.

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.