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success--the real success--does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position

Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

When I hear some of my young friends complain of want of sympathy and encouragement, I am inclined to think that my naval life was not the least valuable part of my education.

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.

Well, what I mean by Education is learning the rules of this mighty game.

Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?

We have it in our power to begin the world over again

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.

By flight alone we cannot overcome, but by endurance and true humility we are made stronger than all our enemies.

If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy.

No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go any where, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.

I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on.

Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.

You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

Desire is a manifestation of power.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.