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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.