Duty is ours, results are God's.

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.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

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.

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.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favour of justice for all people.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.