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.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.