People should be free people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I'm not happy all the time and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

If the opposition disarms well and good. If it refuses to disarm we shall disarm it ourselves.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Good night good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again and ten times more.