Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.