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

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.

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.

If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.

Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

We are all waiting for when there will be peace on earth and the end of the war. If this happens then it would be a miracle.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.