For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.