“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”