If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

This is history written in lightning.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.