Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.