Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves — self-discipline with all of them came first.

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.