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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Conscious of my own deficiency, I cannot enter on these duties without great anxiety for the result.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it.

Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

Doubt is of two natures, and we often confuse a wise suspension of judgment with the weakness of hesitation.

Moreover, the result in the long run will depend not so much on some single resolution, or on our action in a special case, but rather on the preparation of daily life.

Our duty is to make ourselves useful, and thus life may be most interesting, and yet comparatively free from anxiety.

The body ceases to grow in a few years; but the mind, if we will let it, may grow as long as life lasts.

Less possessed of your confidence in advance than any of my predecessors, I am deeply conscious of the prospect that I shall stand more and oftener in need of your indulgence.

There is no act which more imperatively requires to be performed under a strong sense of individual responsibility than the nomination to employments.

For the first time in our history the person elected to the Vice-Presidency of the United States, by the happening of a contingency provided for in the Constitution, has had devolved upon him the Presidential office.

Have none of my Fellow Creatures an equitable Right to any Part which is called mine?

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

in the exercise of this high power, we must be ever on our guard, lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.

Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life