I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

But some climbs you have to make alone.

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life is the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.

Life is naught but battles big and small, and most of them unexpected.

Duty were our games.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.

I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.

I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

Time kept on and on like the cheapest toilet paper.