When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
There is always room at the top.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
