“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.” 

“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.” 

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.” 

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.” 

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” 

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” 

“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, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” 

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” 

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” 

“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.” 

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” 

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” 

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”