Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

They do not want much and they get very little. Each one considers his business of great importance and I must gratify them. I know how I would feel in their place.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper. And my whole soul is in it.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

They do not want much and they get very little. Each one considers his business of great importance and I must gratify them. I know how I would feel in their place.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.