I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated book or piece of literature that presents extremism.

Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.