When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: You must give, if you want to get.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.