One man with courage makes a majority.

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’m sorry but I will manage my anger when you manage your childishness.

Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)