Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

I was raised to farm work.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

History is not history unless it is the truth.