Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.