The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he...
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purp...
If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which w...
Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.