The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

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.

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.