Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.

No man is taller than his head, and there is no big brain that is bigger than the head!

You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it!

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?

Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.