“A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.”

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

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.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.