To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Liberty is its own reward.

I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.