I'd rather be right than President.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

... the more I seek, the less I find.

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

One drop of the Lord's mercy is better than an ocean of the world's comfort.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.