“It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of o...”

“Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.”

“People Gain your Loyalty and love when they can't get from the person whom they want part of their life.”

“Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else!”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”

“Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.”

“Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.”

“A hand fought best when it made a fist.”