Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

I don’t know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.