Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.