Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
This is a war to end all wars.
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.