Important principles may and must be flexible.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane...
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.