Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.