Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray."

Doesn't it strike you as queer that I, who couldn't cut the head off of a chicken, and who was sick at the sight of blood, should be cast into the middle of a great war, with...

Gentlemen, you had better come up and shake my hand while you can - honors elevate some men.

Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Constituted as man is, he has positive need of occasional recreation, and whatever can give him this, associated with virtue and advantage and free from vice and disadvantage, is...

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men by...

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say that I have a great respect for the simicolon; it's a very...

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...

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

It is my pleasure that my children are free, happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny.Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

With all the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it...

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch anything on it and almost impossible after you get it...

A man who denies to other men equality of rights is hardly worthy of freedom; but I would give even to him all the rights which I claim for myself.