What convinces is conviction.

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel