“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.”

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

Be a great speaker, become a leader.

Prayer gives time back to God. It makes us step away from the obsession of a life that is always lacking time and rediscover the peace of necessary things.

Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

I don’t stand for black man’s side, I don’t stand for white man’s side, I stand for God’s side.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

God helps him who strives hard.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.