"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."

"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."

"Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!"

"There is always room at the top."

"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality."

"Wisdom begins at the end."

"On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions."

"One country, one constitution, one destiny."

"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American."

"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny."

"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."

"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830"

"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils."

"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems."

"The law: it has honored us; may we honor it."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."

"Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."

"The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God."

"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."

"The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions"

"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."

"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."