All the best stories are but one story in reality the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.