"I have been selected to fill an important office for a brief period, and am now, in your eyes, invested with an authority which I must soon yield to the regularly chosen successor, and which I hope to…"

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."