If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
Duty is ours, results are God’s.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Whoever tells the best story wins.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.
I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?
May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.