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

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

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

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

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

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

Cleanliness beings with purity of your own mind, thoughts and heart.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

If I'm president, we will win on everything we do.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.

Get a look at greatness!

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.

Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!