Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

America… goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only...

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I...

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}

Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.{Letter to his son and future president, John Quincy Adams, 16...