The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

Every game I played was a bonus.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place