We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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 can make more generals, but horses cost money.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.