Whoever tells the best story wins.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

Individual liberty is individual power.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

From the experience of the past, we derive instructive lessons for the future.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.