We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.