The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen..

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real polit….

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or ….

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strengt….

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands..

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it..

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil..

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right ….

[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has pa….

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old..

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pas….

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other..

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan..

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full an….

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people..

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else..

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires..

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose….

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions..

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, a….

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devi….