There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.