Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

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.

Spirituality is the spark of the soul.

Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Now let's try that again. Ask my wife nice, and maybe I'll let you sleep in the same bed as your teeth tonight.

If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

I dont want to just be a broker all my life, I want to lead.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.