In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

I remember all the things we said we'd doAnd how not a single thing we said was true

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

We are all fools in love.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.