“I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.”

“With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.”

“I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees-you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?Opposing expansion of Redwood National Park.”

“Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.”

“Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.”

“I was born free as Caesar; so were you”

“I must have libertyWithal, as large a charter as the wind,To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.”

“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?”

“This liberty is all that I request.”

“My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.”

“Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.”

“For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

“So loving to my mother,That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,Visit her face' too roughly.”

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”

“A system-grinder hates the truth.”

“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.”

“The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.”

“It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.”

“Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.”

“Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.”