Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

There’s calm in the mind of the humble. An unmistakable peace of not having to prove anything to anyone.

God cherises praises, admires thanksgiving and embraces prayer .

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.