No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.