Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.