I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

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

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.