Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the….

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands..

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil..

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or ….

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it..

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained..

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritanc….

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis..

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions..

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great exper….

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home..

It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the ca….

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people..

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increa….

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the bil….

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, d….

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it..

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencie….

Tortured for the Republic..

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it..