The US States are our laboratories of democracy.
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.