No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

Avoid popularity if you would have peace

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all

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...

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read

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

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Everybody likes a compliment

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the...