It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!