"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before."

"By whom?"

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures..."

"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."