Our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
What is the use of putting up the gap when the fence is down all around?
We hold the power – and bear the responsibility.
My countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our charter of liberty, let me entreat you to come back.
The Fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day for firecrackers.
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
I have more pegs than holes to put them in.
The government must not undertake to run the churches.
All seems well with us.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.
It is no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation.
If the Ship of State should suffer wreck now, it will never need another pilot.
Let us see what we can do.
I will try to go to God with my sorrows.
The wriggle to live, without toil, work, or labor, which I am not free from myself.
Persisting in a charge one does not know to be true is malicious slander.
Steer from point to point – no farther than you can see.
God bless the women of America!
The churches, as such, must take care of themselves.
There is no more dangerous or expensive analysis than that which consists of trying a man.
Answer with facts, not with arguments.
The nation is beginning a new life.
Better give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him in contesting for the right.
Money being the object, the man having money would be the victim.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
Early impressions last longer.
Stand with anybody who stands right, … and part with him when he goes wrong.
My advice is to keep cool.
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
I have done just as much as, and no more than, the public knows.
Many free countries have lost their liberties and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest boast, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
I feel that I can not succeed without the Divine blessing, and on the Almighty Being I place my reliance for support.
It is not "Can any of us imagine better?" but "Can we all do better?"
Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Maintain the honor and integrity of the nation.
I look to the American people, and to that God who has never forsaken them.
Secure peace through victory.
What is the influence of fashion but the influence that other people's actions have on our actions?
Our government rests in public opinion.
Posterity has done nothing for us, and, theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it unless we are made to think we are, at the same time, doing something for ourselves.
I am glad to find a man who can go ahead without me.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him you are his sincere friend.
Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better than gold.
These are not the days of miracles, and I suppose I am not to expect a direct revelation.
Do not mix politics with your profession.
The first reformer in any movement has to meet with such a hard opposition, and gets so battered and bespattered, that afterward, when people find they have to accept his reform, they will accept it more easily from another man.
Versatility is an injurious possession, since it can never be greatness.
A jury has too frequently at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
It is a cheering thought throughout life, that something can be done to ameliorate the condition of those who have been subjected to the hard usages of the world.
With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.
Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
We are going through with our task.
I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to me.
Human nature will not change.
Beware of rashness!
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself.
All should have an equal chance.
I hope to be false to nothing you have been taught to expect of me.
All honor to Jefferson!
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
I hope I am a Christian.