One country, one constitution, one destiny.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.