No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

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.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

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.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.