Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Labor is the true standard of value.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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.