It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone.""There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.

If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.