Common Sense is the realized sense of proportion.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. 

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. 

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

Many of life's failures are people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.