All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

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

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

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.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.

From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

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.

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

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that people are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.