Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.