All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

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.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance that ended much too soon.

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.

Hope for the best and make peace with the rest.

I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.