And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. ….

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction..

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do..

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national….

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive..

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now b….

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a….

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men..

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality..

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..

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly cla….

Achievement has no color.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe..

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten ange….

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn..

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued..

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility..

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous..

I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our p….

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart..