We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

One thing—one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

He who reforms, God assists.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.