Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.