I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Love me - that's all I ask of you.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.