I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.