"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces."

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them."

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."

"Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor."

"God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race."