We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

[I feel] somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.