“In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.

If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

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

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

In very truth he was, the noblest work of God—an honest man.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.