The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Politics makes me sick.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.