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

"I drink to the man who can make a better whiskey than I can."

"You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is…"

"He has a right to criticize, but he has no right to misrepresent."

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."