The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

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

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.