A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?