If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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.

One thunderbolt strikesroot through everything

Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

I'm a very distracted person.

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking... but not truly seeing.

I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.