No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.