"Failure is impossible."

"The only way to get a man to do something is to make him think it was his idea in the first place."

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."

"The true republic—men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

"If all the world were to go to smash, I would still hold fast to my principles."